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Römische Historische Mitteilungen 65/2023
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Römische Historische Mitteilungen 66/2024, pp. 287-299, 2025/09/25
In the memoirs of the time and the fiction, Franz Joseph is said to have had an al-most friendly relationship with ‘his’ civil servants. However, the mutual relationship between the emperor and the bureaucracy was not only subject to change during the decades of his long reign. The perspective from which Franz Joseph viewed his officials changed several times, just as the attitude of the officials, at least the elite officials, towards the ruler changed. In the turmoil that had gripped society, many of the officials, conservative and loyal to the emperor, looked to Franz Joseph for guidance in this late period of the monarchy. He may have appeared to them as the only reliable force in the state, and in this period the emperor seems to have trusted the civil servants more than politicians of any colour, party or nation in his work of governing. The following article is intended to demonstrate Franz Joseph’s view of his office as a sovereign, of statecraft and raison d’état.