Moritz Esterházy de Galantha (politician, 1881)

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Moritz Graf Esterházy also Móric Esterházy de Galantha (born April 27, 1881 in Majk , † June 28, 1960 in Vienna ) was a noble Hungarian politician and Prime Minister .

Moritz Esterházy

Life

His parents were Miklós Esterházy (1855–1925) and Franziska von Schwarzenberg (1861–1951). Esterházy was married to Margit Károlyi (1896–1975). The couple had four children. Esterházy is the grandfather of the writer Péter Esterházy .

He studied in Budapest and Oxford and in 1906 became a member of the Hungarian Imperial Council . During the First World War , he fought as a reserve captain on the Serbian and Russian fronts.

On June 15, 1917, King Károly surprisingly appointed the 36-year-old Esterházy as the successor to the anti-reform István Tisza as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary . In his government there were mostly supporters of Gyula Andrassy . As prime minister, his main task was to promote social reforms and electoral reform. A lack of political experience and the crises in the fourth year of the war quickly caused difficulties. Since he could not enforce an equal right to vote against Tisza's supporters, he resigned on August 20, 1917. In the government of his successor, Sándor Wekerle , he was Minister without Portfolio, responsible for public health and education.

After the war he devoted himself to the administration of his large estates. For the Christian Social Party he was again a member of the Hungarian Parliament in 1931 and a representative of his party in the important economic committee.

During World War II he was an advisor to Miklós Horthy . On October 16, 1944, because he refused to cooperate with the German occupation, he was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Mauthausen concentration camp . After the liberation in 1945 he went back to Hungary, where he was imprisoned by the communists in Hort , Heves county in 1951 . He did not emigrate to Austria until 1956 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Moritz Esterházy on Austrian Commanders (accessed on January 25, 2010)
  2. ^ Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties: Sources on the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties. Volume 9, Verlag Droste, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-7700-5114-9 , p. 1503.
  3. ↑ a b biography (Hungarian)
  4. ↑ a b Moritz Esterházy on EsterhazyWiki
  5. ↑ Andrew L. Simon: Admiral Nicholas Horthy. Memoirs. Simon Publications, Safety Harbor 2000, ISBN 978-0-9665734-3-5 , p. 109.
personal data
SURNAME Esterházy de Galantha, Moritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Esterházy, Moritz Graf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian landowner and politician, Member of Parliament
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Majk
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1960
Place of death Vienna