Foregger - the first and only, as of 2013, under the Criminal Justice Ministers of the Second Republic - was instrumental in the large Christian Broda-involved penal reform in 1975.
During his tenure, he judged over politically sensitive process, as such in the Lucona case and the Noricum Scandal, but other explosive events accompanied his tenure such as the murder of Kurdish political leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou and the scandals facing Fred Sinowatz and Hannes Androsch.
This earned him public respect, but also meant that the SPÖ-led government formed a veto against a further term of Foregger after the National Council elections in 1990.
[2] During his tenure as justice minister, Foregger put in a renewed juvenile offence system, as before that the extrajudicial offense resolution had elicited a European role model.
Discrimination against illegitimate children in hereditary and family law was abolished and the prohibition of violence in child-rearing was enshrined.