When Hungary was given self-government in 1867, the non-Hungarian portions were called the Empire of Austria and were officially known as the " Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council ( Reichsrat )".

Renner was always interested in politics and in 1896 he joined the Social Democratic Workers ' Party of Austria ( SDAP ), representing the party in the National Council ( Reichsrat ) from the 1907 elections till its dissolution in November 1918.

In 1918, after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he was in the forefront of the Provisional and the Constitutional National Assemblies of those Cisleithanian " Lands Represented in the Reichsrat " ( the formal description of the Austrian half of the Dual Monarchy ) that predominantly spoke German and had decided to form a nation-state like the other nationalities had done.

In 1919-1933 / 1934 the name was Reichsrat.

With the Weimar Constitution, it was replaced in 1919 by the Reichsrat ( 1919 – 1934 ).

In 1885 he was elected to the lower house ( Abgeordnetenhaus ) of the Austrian Imperial Parliament ( Reichsrat ), representig the Fifth District of Vienna, and was returned in the 1891 election.

The Reichsrat was the means by which the provinces ( Länder ) could participate in the making of legislation at the national level.

The Reichsrat was entitled to object to laws passed by the Reichstag.

A month later, the Reichsrat itself was dissolved.

The somewhat cumbersome official name was Die im Reichsrat vertretenen Königreiche und Länder (" The Kingdoms and States represented in the Imperial Council ").

As such he was an hereditary member of the Upper House of the Bavarian Reichsrat.

In general this period of Chlodwig's life was occupied in the management of his estates, in the sessions of the Bavarian Reichsrat and in travels.

* The Austrian House of Lords was the Upper House of the Imperial Council ( Reichsrat ) of the Cisleithanian ( Austrian ) half of Austria-Hungary between 1867 and 1918.

In 1829 he returned to official life, and in 1831 he was appointed lifelong Reichsrat of Bavaria and awarded the ( non-hereditary ) title " von Maurer ".

In 1911 he was elected Member of the Austrian Reichsrat ( the parliament of the Austro-Hungary ) for the constituency of Brno.

The Reichsrat was one of two legislative bodies in Germany during Weimar Republic ( 1919-1933 ), the other being the Reichstag.

The Reichsrat consisted of members appointed by the German States and participated in legislation affecting all constitutional changes and state competences, while the Reichstag was the elected body of the people.

But de facto the Reichsrat remained very powerful, because overruling it needed a majority of two-thirds in the Reichstag, which was splintered into many parties and was frequently dissolved.

After World War II, when the Federal Republic of Germany was founded the state's representation again was called Bundesrat and again became more powerful than the Reichsrat though not as powerful as the Bundesrat of the German Empire.

The Imperial Council ( German: Reichsrat, Czech: Říšská rada, Croatian: Carevinsko vijeće, Slovenian: Državni zbor ) from 1867 to 1918 was the parliament of the Cisleithanian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

* Reichsrat ( roughly " Imperial Council "), a smaller, more powerful legislative body in several German-speaking countries, similar to the Upper House of a Parliament

Reichsrat is a legislative body in German-speaking countries similar to the Upper House of a Parliament.

* Reichsrat ( Germany ), a body representing the German States in the Weimar Republic ( 1919-1933 )

Hungary was given special status in the Reichsrat through a provision that called for non-Hungarian delegates to meet separately from the whole body to discuss non-Hungarian matters.

The delegates to the original Bundesrat as those to the Reichsrat, while appointed by the state governments just as today, usually were high-ranking civil servants, not cabinet members.

However, since he still claimed to be the legitimate King of Hanover as well, the German Reichsrat declared that he would disturb the peace of the empire if he ascended the ducal throne.

Obstructionism by German nationalists slowed or stopped parliamentary business in the Reichsrat and riots erupted in Vienna, Graz, Salzburg, and the alpine provinces.

The German negotiators continued to discuss solely on the basis of particular points rather than a general concordat during 1931 but even these were felt to be unlikely to be passed by the Reichstag or the Reichsrat, no matter their political or theological leanings.

* neither any house committee nor the Reichsrat ( the common organ of the German regional states ) had the right to control, or to abolish these laws

Following the 1867 constitutional arrangements, the Reichsrat was dominated by German Liberals, who generally regarded the army as a relic of feudalism.

In 1860 he was summoned to the remodelled Reichsrat by the emperor, and next year nominated him a life member of the Austrian upper house ( Herrenhaus ), where, while remaining a keen upholder of the German centralized empire, as against the federalism the Slavs and Magyars, he greatly distinguished himself as one of the most intrepid and influential supporters of the cause of Realism, in both political and religious matters.

His fall, however, did not end the political and ethnic problems within the Empire and for several years, while the Reichsrat met occasionally, the government ruled largely through emergency decree.

* Reichsrat ( Austria ), the Upper House of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ( 1867-1918 )

In February 1861, the February Patent, a letters patent issued by Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I, was adopted as the “ Imperial Constitution of 1861 .” It was proclaimed as a revision of the previous October Diploma, the “ Irrevocable Fundamental Law of the State .” The February Patent established in the Austrian Empire a bicameral imperial parliament, still called the Reichsrat, with an upper chamber appointed by the emperor and an indirectly elected lower chamber.

Some of the noble families even earned themselves the right to be hereditary peers in the House of Lords ( Herrenhaus ) in the Imperial Council ( Reichsrat ) of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Cisleithania consisted of 15 crown lands ( Kronländer ) which had representatives in the Imperial Council ( Reichsrat ), the Cisleithanian parliament in Vienna.

* Reichsrat ( Bavaria ), the House of Lords in the Kingdom of Bavaria ( 1806-1918 )

In 1848 he became member of the lower house of the Imperial Parliament ( Reichsrat ), the House of Deputies ( Abgeordnetenhaus ), and in 1861 the upper house, the House of Lords ( Herrenhaus ).

He was a member of the Bohemian Diet in 1865-1872 and 1883-1907 ( presiding over it during the periods of 1871-1872 and 1883-1907 as Land Marshall of Bohemia ), and he served as deputy in the Abgeordnetenhaus of the Austrian Parliament ( Reichsrat ) in 1879-1883 and became a hereditary member of the Herrenhaus in 1883.

Like the law abolishing the Reichsrat, this law actually violated the Enabling Act, which specifically forbade Hitler from tampering with the presidency.

On his retirement he returned to his judicial duties ; in 1867 he was made life-member of the Upper House ( Herrenhaus ) in the Reichsrat, of which he became vice-president, and in 1871 president.

He was unsuccessful with promoting federalism and failing to obtain the cooperation of the Czechs in the Reichsrat he stepped down on 6 February 1871, ushering in a brief interregnum of conservative rule under Count Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart ( 1871-1871 ) which was equally ineffective in implementing federalism, so that power quickly reverted to liberalism again.

In 1907, Korošec was elected to the Reichsrat as a member of the Slovenian People's Party, where, as president of the Yugoslav Club, he read out the May Declaration, which called for all South Slavs to be unified in one state unit within the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.