The Mayor of Vienna Richard Weiskirchner and the Mayor of Budapest, Istvan Barczy, on the way to Schönbrunn for the ceremony of homage to the Emperor, photo from Wiener Bilder, issue of 5 September 1915

The Christian-Social mayor appointed in the four-curial electoral system was noted as a pragmatic politician. For a long time he believed he could guide the great new awakening, but in fact had to administer to decline and collapse.