Leopold von Auersperg

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Leopold Graf von Auersperg (born May 16, 1855 in Budapest , † February 23, 1918 in Baden , Lower Austria) was an Austrian politician, agriculture minister and member of the manor in the Austrian Imperial Council .

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Leopold Wolfgang Albert Graf von Auersperg was born as the son of Count Wolfgang Gottfried Leopold von Auersperg (1818–1893) and his Jewish wife Marianne nee Freiin von Neuwall (1831–1908). Count Leopold had two siblings: his sister Augusta Franziska († 1942), who was three years older, and a thirteen years younger brother, Anton Alexander († 1924).

He studied law and then worked in the civil service. From 1886 to 1890 he was District Captain of Lilienfeld , then until 1905 District Captain of Baden . His marriage to Wilhelmine Hanny (1873–1955) has two children: daughter Anna Maria (1897–1977), married to Hugo Arthur Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck and son Ferdinand Johann (1906–1944), married to Maria von Kink (* 1919) . The marriage of his daughter Anna Maria to Count Henckel von Donnersmarck also resulted in a close relationship with the Princely House of Starhemberg : A sister of the later Vice Chancellor and Federal Leader of the Patriotic Front in the corporate state Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg is the mother-in-law of Auersperg's daughter Anna Maria.

In 1905 Auersperg switched to the Ministry of Commerce as head of section . From 1906 to 1907 he was Minister of Agriculture in the Beck Council of Ministers . His predecessor was Ferdinand de Longueval, his successor Alfred Ebenhoch . After his resignation, Emperor Franz Joseph appointed Count Auersperg as a lifelong member of the manor in the Imperial Council.

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SURNAME Auersperg, Leopold von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Auersperg, Leopold Wolfgang Albert Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian nobleman, civil servant and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1918
Place of death Baden (Lower Austria)