Max von Coudenhove

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Max Graf von Coudenhove
(around 1911)

Max Julius Viktor Maria (Count von) Coudenhove (born December 17, 1865 in Vienna , † July 3, 1928 in Bad Kissingen ) was an Austrian lawyer .

Life

Coudenhove came from the ancient Austrian noble family of Coudenhove-Kalergi , who came from Brabant and was first mentioned in 1240 and raised to the rank of imperial count in 1790 . He was the son of Theophil Graf von Coudenhove (1803–1880) and his wife Henriette Josephine von Auersperg (1820–1873).

He was Imperial Court Councilor at the Administrative Court in Vienna, Real Privy Councilor and Chamberlain .

Coudenhove was a member of the Austrian civil service from 1888. From January 26, 1908 to March 27, 1915 , he was appointed President of Austria-Silesia by Emperor Franz Joseph I. and then governor of Bohemia from 1915 to 1918 during the First World War , as such the last before the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic on October 28, 1918.

After the break-up of Austria-Hungary in 1918, he withdrew from politics and ran his Seehof family estate, now a maternal convalescent home. The titles of nobility were abolished for Austrian citizens with the Nobility Repeal Act of German Austria , which came into effect on April 10, 1919 .

Coudenhove married Marie Amalia Taaffe on September 21, 1889 in Vienna (* September 21, 1866 in Salzburg ; † November 19, 1928 in Vienna ), daughter of the then Austrian Prime Minister Eduard Taaffe and Irma Csáky de Körösszegh et Adorján (1838–1912) .

His grave is in the chapel cemetery in Bad Kissingen.

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SURNAME Coudenhove, Max von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coudenhove, Max Julius Viktor Maria Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1928
Place of death Bad Kissingen