Karl Seitz

Karl Seitz (born Sept. 4, 1869, Vienna—died Feb. 3, 1950, Vienna) was a politician, acting head of Austria (1919–20) after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and longtime Socialist mayor of Vienna (1923–34). He served as a Social Democrat member of the Austrian Reichsrat (national assembly) through the last years of the empire, and after World War I he presided over the provisional national assembly of republican Austria (1918–19). Seitz served as speaker of the...