Rudolf Ramek

Rudolf Ramek (1881 to 1941) was an Austrian Christian Social politician who served as Chancellor of Austria from November 1924 to October 1926. Born in Teschen in Austrian Silesia, now Cieszyn in Poland, he sat in the Constitutional Assembly of 1919 and was State Secretary of Justice in Karl Renner's cabinet until June 1920, then a member of the National Council. He succeeded his party colleague Ignaz Seipel as chancellor. His government saw the Schilling become the official currency in 1925 after the hyperinflation of the old krone, and the League of Nations commissioner's supervision of state finances ended in 1926. He resigned during the crisis around the state-owned postal savings bank and Seipel returned. As a vice president of the National Council from 1930 he resigned with the other presidents in March 1933, which let Engelbert Dollfuss block further sittings, and on 30 April 1934 he reconvened the assembly to adopt the May Constitution. He died in Vienna.