Agenor Gołuchowski the Elder

Coat of arms of Count Gołuchowski Graf von Gołuchowo

Agenor Gołuchowski the Elder, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1859

Agenor Romuald Gołuchowski Count von Gołuchowo (born February 8, 1812 in Skała Podolska , † August 3, 1875 in Lemberg ) was Austrian minister and governor of Galicia . Because of the son of the same name, he is also called Agenor Gołuchowski the Elder .

Life

Agenor Gołuchowski received his training in Galicia and began his administrative career as a governor's advisory board. From 1849 to 1859 governor of Galicia, he earned several merits by organizing the judiciary, founding schools and agricultural and humanitarian institutions, building roads, etc., and also by promoting the purposes of the Joseph Maximilian Ossolinsky Institute in Lemberg.

After Alexander Bach's resignation on August 22, 1859, appointed Minister of the Interior, he took part in the reorganization of the monarchy in a federalist sense, which was to be completed in the October diploma of 1860, but showed himself to be unable to cope with the difficult tasks of his office on December 13, 1860 Anton von Schmerling as his successor. The centralized constitution of February 26, 1861 was so opposed to his political convictions that, although he was appointed a hereditary member of the newly formed mansion , he withdrew from politics completely until he was again influenced by Count Richard Belcredis and Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust in September 1866 Became governor of Galicia.

Dismissed by the mayor in 1867, he became governor of his native province for the third time under Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart in 1871, where he has since been a member of the Polish aristocratic party to strengthen the Polish position in Galicia. However, this was viewed critically by parts of the population, especially the Ruthenians and German culture, as Polonization .

Works

The K. and K. Consular Academy from 1754 to 1904. Commemorative publication to celebrate the hundred and fifty years of the Academy and the opening of its new building. Verlag des K. u. K. Ministry of the Imperial and Royal Houses and of Foreign Affairs, Vienna 1904.

literature

Gołuchowski Agenor Romuald Onufr. Count. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 30.

Web links

Entry on Agenor Gołuchowski the Elder in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

personal data
SURNAME	Gołuchowski, Agenor the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gołuchowski by Gołuchowo, Agenor Romuald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian statesman
DATE OF BIRTH	February 8, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH	Skała Podolska
DATE OF DEATH	August 3, 1875
Place of death	Lviv