Albert from Apponyi

Count Albert Apponyi von Nagy-Apponyi (also Nagyappony , born May 29, 1846 in Vienna , † February 7, 1933 in Geneva ) was a Hungarian aristocrat and politician .

Philip Alexius de László : Count Albert Apponyi, oil on canvas, 1897

Life

Count Albert Apponyi in Berlin 1928

He came from the noble family of Apponyi , which can be traced back to the 13th century. As the son of Count György Apponyi, Chancellor of Hungary 1846–1848, Albert Apponyi was elected a member of the Hungarian Reichstag in 1872 . With a brief exception, he remained a member until 1918. From the late 1880s onwards, he was the leader of the United Opposition, which united all parties that opposed the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867. In the years before 1914, Hungarian politics was seen as the playing field of only four aristocratic politicians: Apponyi, István Tisza , Mihály Károlyi and Gyula Andrássy .

Enthusiastic about the military successes of the Central Powers in Serbia and Poland , Apponyi drafted generous plans for conquest in the House of Representatives in connection with the Central Europe concept at the end of 1915 :

“I see a great perspective ahead of me. I see the strengthening of the Central European Alliance, the annexation - not through conquest, but through the bond of the community of interests - of the Balkan Peninsula, the expansion of the Alliance in its influence in all of Central Asia in an area which, taken together with the areas of Central Europe, creates a global political combination, which before me, if I want to look further, represents the beginning of the restoration of the Western cultural community. "

From April 8, 1906 to January 17, 1910 and from June 15, 1917 to May 8, 1918 Apponyi officiated as the Hungarian Minister for Culture and Education. After the First World War , Apponyi was the Hungarian delegation leader at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference in Versailles in 1920 .

On March 20, 1921 he was accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece .

Apponyi was a proven speaker and had a wide range of interests - also outside of politics. He was fluent in six languages and studied linguistics, literature, philosophy and music, among others. He visited the United States several times from 1904, the last time in 1924. He gave lectures and met political leaders such as Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft . Apponyi described his impressions of America in his autobiography The Memoirs of Count Apponyi (1935). He was also the author of the book Esthetics and Politics, the Artist and the Statesman . He died on February 7, 1933 in Geneva, where he was awaiting the reopening of the League of Nations Conference on Disarmament .

Fonts (selection)

Memoirs of a statesman. From 40 years of parliamentary activity . Heller publishing house, Leipzig / Vienna 1912.
Experiences and results . Keil Publishing House, Berlin 1933.

Individual evidence

^ Paul Lendvai: The Hungarians. A thousand years of victory in defeat . Hurst Publisher, London 2003, ISBN 1-85065-673-8 , p. 361.
↑ József Galántai: The war aims of the Tisza government from 1913 to 1917 . In: Nouvelles études historiques. Publiées à l'occasion du XIIe Congrès International des Sciences Historiques par la Commission Nationale des Historiens Hongrois . Budapest 1965, pp. 201-225, here: p. 213.
^ Ernst Rutkowski (Ed.): Letters and documents on the history of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Volume 1, Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 1983, pp. 207f.
↑ List nominal des chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or, depuis son instiution jusqu'à nos jours , in: The House of Austria and the Order of the Golden Fleece. Edited by the Ordenskanzlei. Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz / Stuttgart 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-7020-1172-7 ), pp. 161–198, here p. 195.

literature

Apponyi Albert Graf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 27.
Helmut Brenner / Reinhold Kubik : Mahler's people. Friends and companions. St. Pölten - Salzburg - Vienna 2014, pp. 89–90, ISBN 978-3-7017-3322-4 .

Web links

Commons : Albert Apponyi - collection of images, videos and audio files

Biography at Austrian commander (English)
Literature by and about Albert von Apponyi in the catalog of the German National Library
Newspaper article about Albert von Apponyi in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

personal data
SURNAME	Apponyi, Albert of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Apponyi from Nagyappony, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian nobleman, politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	May 29, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	February 7, 1933
Place of death	Geneva

[1] Paul Lendvai: The Hungarians. A thousand years of victory in defeat . Hurst Publisher, London 2003, ISBN 1-85065-673-8 , p. 361.

[2] József Galántai: The war aims of the Tisza government from 1913 to 1917 . In: Nouvelles études historiques. Publiées à l'occasion du XIIe Congrès International des Sciences Historiques par la Commission Nationale des Historiens Hongrois . Budapest 1965, pp. 201-225, here: p. 213.

[3] Ernst Rutkowski (Ed.): Letters and documents on the history of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Volume 1, Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 1983, pp. 207f.

[4] List nominal des chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or, depuis son instiution jusqu'à nos jours , in: The House of Austria and the Order of the Golden Fleece. Edited by the Ordenskanzlei. Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz / Stuttgart 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-7020-1172-7 ), pp. 161–198, here p. 195.