Alfred Józef Potocki

Alfred Józef Potocki (actually Alfred II. Józef Marian Count Potocki von Pilawa ; born July 29, 1817 or 1822 in Łańcut , Kingdom of Galicia , today Poland ; † May 18, 1889 in Paris ) was a Polish aristocrat and Prime Minister of Cisleithania in Austria-Hungary .

Life

From the magnate dynasty of Potocki's coming, his parents were Alfred Wojciech Potocki (1786-1862) and Józefina Maria Czartoryska (1787-1862), he was already in 1848 Member of the Viennese Parliament. Initially active in the diplomatic service, he was a hereditary member of the manor house from 1861 , from 1863 to 1869 member of the Landtag of Galicia and from 1875 to 1877 its president ( Landmarschall / marszałek krajowy).

From December 30, 1867 to January 15, 1870 Potocki kk was Minister of Agriculture in the so-called Citizens' Ministry and then resigned because his opinion on federalism remained in the minority in the cabinet. On April 12, 1870 he was appointed by the Kaiser to the Imperial and Royal Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of a civil servants' cabinet. a. Sisinio of Pretis-Cagnodo as Minister of Commerce. During his term of office, contrary to his reservations, the Concordat with the Holy See was terminated. He tried in vain to achieve a federal balance in Cisleithanien . Since he did not succeed in getting the Czechs to work in the Imperial Council, he resigned on February 6, 1871.

At the executive level, Potocki was governor of Galicia from 1875 to 1883 . As a liberal-conservative monarchist, he not only supported the imperial concept of Emperor Franz Joseph I , but also pleaded for a peaceful solution to the growing Polish-Ukrainian conflict. On his home estates, Potocki, one of the richest Poles of his time, was one of the modernizers of agriculture and agribusiness. He also campaigned for the strengthening of culture and science, for example as a co-founder of the Akademia Umiejętności in Kraków in 1873. He was the grandson of the writer Jan Potocki .

literature

Lothar Höbelt : Potocki, Alfred Graf von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , pp. 657 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Alfred Józef Potocki - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon Volume 16, Leipzig 1908, p. 235.
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d W. Goldinger - J. Zdrada: Potocki, Alfred Graf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 230.
↑ Józefina Maria Czartoryska ( Memento of July 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on grocholski.pl
^ Christian Schärf: Compensation policy and press struggle in the Hohenwart era. The Fundamental Articles of 1871 and the German-Czech Conflict in Bohemia. Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-486-56147-2 , p. 75.

personal data
SURNAME	Potocki, Alfred Józef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Potocki, Alfred II. Józef Graf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish nobleman and Austro-Hungarian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 29, 1817 or July 29, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH	Landshut (Łańcut), Galicia
DATE OF DEATH	May 18, 1889
Place of death	Paris

[1] Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon Volume 16, Leipzig 1908, p. 235.

[ÖBL-2] A ^b ^c ^d W. Goldinger - J. Zdrada: Potocki, Alfred Graf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 230.

[3] Józefina Maria Czartoryska ( Memento of July 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on grocholski.pl

[4] Christian Schärf: Compensation policy and press struggle in the Hohenwart era. The Fundamental Articles of 1871 and the German-Czech Conflict in Bohemia. Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-486-56147-2 , p. 75.