Ministry of Rechberg

Graf Rechberg (lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1863)

The Rechberg Ministry of the Austrian Empire under the chairmanship of the Ministerial Conference Johann Bernhard Graf von Rechberg and Rothenlöwen held office from August 21, 1859 to February 4, 1861 .

history

Graf Rechberg's predecessor was the chairman of the Ministerial Conference Karl Ferdinand von Buol-Schauenstein , whose policy was considered to have failed. After his resignation Rechberg tried to find an amicable solution to the German question with Prussia and opposed the Greater German solution , which was advocated by Anton von Schmerling . Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria ( Ministry of Archduke Rainer ) followed him as chairman of the Ministerial Conference . Bernhard von Rechberg remained Foreign Minister.

Bernhard von Rechberg (1806–1899), Chairman of the Conference of Ministers and Foreign Minister
Karl Ludwig von Bruck (1798–1860), finance minister until his suicide in 1860
August von Degenfeld-Schonburg (1798–1876), Minister of War
Agenor Gołuchowski the Elder (1812–1875), Minister of the Interior until December 1860
Joseph Alexander von Helfert (1820–1910), Minister for Education
Alexander von Hübner (1811–1892), Minister of Police from 1860
Josef Lasser von Zollheim (1814–1879), Minister without portfolio, then Minister for Justice from October 1860
Karl Mecséry de Tsóor (1804–1889), Minister of the Interior from December 1860
Franz Seraphin von Nádasdy , Minister of Justice
Ignaz von Plener (1810–1908), Finance Minister from 1860
Anton von Schmerling (1805–1893), Minister of State from December 1860
Antal Szécsen von Temerin (1819–1896), minister without portfolio
Adolf von Thierry (1803–1867), Minister of Police until 1860
Leo von Thun and Hohenstein (1811–1888), Minister for Culture and Education

Constantin von Wurzbach : Rechberg and Rothenlöwen, Johann Bernhard Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 25th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1873, pp. 89–94 ( digitized version ).
Franz Ilwof : Rechberg and Rothenlöwen, Bernhard Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 233-246.
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon , sixth edition, 1904–1911.
H. Brettner-Messler: Rechberg and Rothenlöwen Johann Bernhard Graf von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 4 f. (Direct links on p. 4 , p. 5 ).
Peter Urbanitsch : Rechberg and Rothenlöwen, Bernhard Graf von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 230 f. ( Digitized version ).

↑ Die Neue Deutsche Biographie (Volume 3, 1957) judges his policy: “He failed because he was unable to get his inconsistent emperor through the correct knowledge of the threat to the Austrian existence from Prussia and Russia and did not make the necessary Italian sacrifices would have."