Alajos Károlyi

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Alajos Károlyi at the Berlin Congress as 2nd from left
painting by Anton von Werner (1881)

Count Alajos Károlyi von Nagykároly (born August 8, 1825 in Vienna , Austrian Empire , † December 2, 1889 in Tótmegyer , Austria-Hungary ) was a Hungarian Austrian diplomat .

Life

Alajos Károlyi came from a noble Hungarian family. He joined the Austrian diplomatic service and was deployed in various European capitals. In 1858 he was on a special mission in St. Petersburg to Russia's support against Napoleon III. to obtain. As the Austrian ambassador in Berlin, he negotiated the alliance with Bismarck in the German-Danish War , as well as the rift with Bismarck in the German War in 1866 . He was significantly involved in the preliminary peace of Nikolsburg in 1866 . As envoy of Austria-Hungaryhe stayed in Berlin after the establishment of the Empire in 1871 and represented his country at the Berlin Congress . On the occasion of the meeting of three emperors in September 1872, he and the Russian ambassador Paul von Oubril were jointly awarded the Order of the Black Eagle by Kaiser Wilhelm in Berlin , which led to an outbreak of anger among the previously not consulted Bismarck (who had only intended vases as a gift), and on the resignation of the German Undersecretary of State in the Foreign Office Hermann von Thile . From 1878 he was ambassador of Austria-Hungary in London before he retired in Hungary.

Trivia

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Shortly before the outbreak of the conflict between Prussia and Austria, Károlyi demanded on behalf of his government that Bismarck should state clearly whether he was willing to keep the Gastein Treaty or not. "Of course I want that," replied Bismarck. "Do you think I would answer you differently if I didn't want to?"

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann von Petersdorff:  Thile, Hermann von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, pp. 687-697.

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predecessor Office successor
Karl von Jäger ( Gt ) Austrian envoy in Copenhagen
1858-1859 		Karl von Jäger ( Gt )
August von Koller Austrian envoy in Berlin
1859–1866 		-
- Austro-Hungarian ambassador in Berlin
1871–1878 		Emmerich Széchényi
Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust Austro-Hungarian ambassador in London
1878–1888 		Franz Deym of Střítež
personal data
SURNAME Károlyi, Alajos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Károlyi from Nagykároly, Alajos (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1889
Place of death Tótmegyer