Jósef Kristóffy

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Jósef Kristóffy (born September 17, 1857 in Makó , Hungary , † March 29, 1928 in Budapest ) was a politician and 1905/06 Minister of the Interior of Hungary .

Life

Kristóffy studied law at the Universities of Budapest and Vienna . He then worked as a county official and in 1896 went to the Hungarian Parliament as a member of the Liberal Party . In 1903 he became head team of Sathmar County

As a member of an official government, he was from June 18, 1905 to April 8, 1906 Minister of the Interior in the government of General Géza Fejérváry . The government faced a majority of opposition parties in the Budapest parliament . The opposition called the government unconstitutional because it did not come from a parliamentary majority. Therefore Fejérváry ruled with the help of the king , who adjourned parliament several times, bypassing parliament. The opposition then called for “national resistance” against the “gendarme government”, and recruitment and tax payments were refused in many counties . Kristóffy responded to the "national resistance" with tough police measures. Fejérváry offered his immediate resignation, but the king refused.

Thereupon Kristóffy, the actual head of the cabinet , started negotiations with the social democrats and left-wing liberals, to whom he promised reforms in the electoral law and in the social policy area. The planned universal suffrage, however, endangered the power of the national aristocratic Magyar elite. An explosive domestic political climate arose in Vienna War Office were from General Beck plans developed ( "Fall U" for Hungary) quell a possible uprising in Hungary by force. However, the mood in the population and civil servants gradually turned against the opposition and finally it was agreed on the compromise candidate Sándor Wekerle as the new prime minister, which is why the government with Kristóffy finally resigned on April 8, 1906.

Memorial plaque for Kristóffy in Makó

Kristóffy temporarily retired from political life, but went back to parliament as a member of Békéscsaba with his suffrage program from 1911 to 1913. He was temporarily a member of the circle of heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand , who wanted to limit the privileges of Hungary.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Benda:  Kristóffy, József. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 278.
  2. ↑ a b c d Géza Andreas von Geyr: Sándor Wekerle. 1848-1921. The political biography of a Hungarian statesman of the Danube Monarchy. (= Southeast European Works 91). Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-56037-9 , p. 212ff.
  3. ↑ Erich Zöllner : History of Austria. From the beginning to the present. Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-486-46708-5 , p. 434.
  4. ^ Alice Freifeld: Nationalism and the crowd in liberal Hungary, 1848-1914. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Washington DC, 2000, ISBN 0-8018-6462-3 , p. 219.
  5. ↑ István Deák; Beyond nationalism. A social and political history of the Habsburg officer corps, 1848-1918. Oxford University Press, New York 1990, ISBN 0-19-504505-X , p. 70.
personal data
SURNAME Kristóffy, Jósef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kristóffy, József
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Makó , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1928
Place of death Budapest