On 6 January 1920 Heinrich Lammasch, professor of international law died in Salzburg.
Lammasch studied law at the University of Vienna and became professor for international law at the Faculty of Law and Economics in 1889. He also acted as a moderate conservative in domestic politics. In October 1918, he became the last prime minister of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was the first to represent the idea of the permanent neutrality of the Republic of Austria. In 1918 he developed an Austrian draft for the League of Nations and was a member and president of the International Arbitration Court in The Hague.
He was honored with a monument in the arcaded courtyard of the University of Vienna (1953).
