Béla Wenckheim

Baron Béla Wenckheim (born February 16, 1811 in Körösladány , Békés county , † July 7, 1879 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian politician and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary from March 2 to October 20, 1875 .

Béla Wenckheim

Life

Wenckheim came from the Hungarian branch of the Frankish noble family Wenckheim . In 1839 he became a member of the state parliament , in 1848 Obergespan and Obersthofmeister of the Palatine Archduke Stephan . Because of his participation in the revolution of 1848/49 he had to leave the country and could only return after the amnesty in 1860.

He joined the party of Ferenc Deák . After holding a number of local offices, he became Minister of the Interior in the Gyula Andrássy government after the compromise with Austria in 1867 . In his short term as a transitional premier, he turned against the growing anti-Semitism , which was directed primarily against the immigrating Galician Jews .

Under his successor Kálmán Tisza , he again held the office of Minister of the Interior. Several times he was appointed Minister a latere or Hungarian Minister at the royal court camp , who had to ensure the constant and closest connection between the Viennese court and the ministries in Budapest. He died in office in 1879 after serving six consecutive governments for twelve consecutive years.

The sculptor János Fadrusz erected a bronze equestrian statue in Kisbér in his memory in 1901 .

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Wenckheim, Béla Freiherr . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 54th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1886, pp. 264–266 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon. Volume 20, Leipzig 1909, p. 527.
↑ Rolf Fischer: Development stages of anti-Semitism in Hungary 1867-1939. The destruction of the Magyar-Jewish symbiosis. Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-486-54731-3 , p. 60.
^ Adam Wandruszka, Walter Urbanitsch (Ed.): The Habsburg Monarchy 1848-1918. Volume VII / 1: Constitution and Parliamentarism. Constitutional law, constitutional reality, central representative bodies. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-7001-2871-1 , p. 406.

personal data
SURNAME	Wenckheim, Béla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wenckheim, Baron Béla (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austro-Hungarian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 16, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH	Körösladány , Békés county
DATE OF DEATH	July 7, 1879
Place of death	Budapest

[Meyers-1] Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon. Volume 20, Leipzig 1909, p. 527.

[2] Rolf Fischer: Development stages of anti-Semitism in Hungary 1867-1939. The destruction of the Magyar-Jewish symbiosis. Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-486-54731-3 , p. 60.

[3] Adam Wandruszka, Walter Urbanitsch (Ed.): The Habsburg Monarchy 1848-1918. Volume VII / 1: Constitution and Parliamentarism. Constitutional law, constitutional reality, central representative bodies. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-7001-2871-1 , p. 406.