Artur Bylandt-Rheidt

Count Artur Bylandt-Rheidt

Grave of Bylandt-Rheidt in the Helenenfriedhof

Artur Graf Bylandt-Rheidt (born February 3, 1854 in Prague , † July 6, 1915 in Baden , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian politician .

biography

The son of the late long-time war minister Artur Maximilian of Bylandt-Rheidt studied after school attendance law , and then entered the civil service. At first he was an administrative lawyer for the governor of Brno , before he was secretary to the governor of Moravia between 1881 and 1892 after assignments in the Ministry of Education in 1878 and in the Interior Ministry in 1879 .

In 1892 he was promoted to court counselor and as such was appointed head of the department for elementary schools in the Ministry of Education. After a later assignment as head of the department for technical schools in the Ministry of Education, he first became head of the section in 1897 .

In November 1897 he was appointed Minister for Agriculture by Prime Minister Paul Gautsch and was a member of his first cabinet until March 1898.

In the subsequent government of Franz von Thun and Hohenstein , he was Minister of Education between March 1898 and October 1899. In this function, after the unrest at the Charles University in Prague , he issued a so-called color ban for German students and, on the other hand, promoted the establishment of the Czech Technical University in Brno in 1899 . After leaving the cabinet, he became President of the Senate of the Administrative Court in 1900 and also a member of the manor house . He was then appointed governor of Upper Austria and held this office from 1902 to 1904.

In 1905 he was appointed by Prime Minister Gautsch to his second cabinet and in this position tried to restore the capacity of the Bohemian Landtag, which had been unable to act since June 1904 due to obstruction . He was also an advocate of universal suffrage , which was finally introduced in 1907. He left the government in May 1906 at the end of Prime Minister Gautsch's term of office.

He is buried in the Helenenfriedhof in Baden .

literature

• Bylandt-Rheidt, Artur Graf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 131.

Web links

• Biography of Artur Bylandt-Rheidt on the server of the federal state of Upper Austria .