Olivier Marquis de Bacquehem

Bacquehem (1894)

Bacquehem (1908)

Olivier Marquis de Bacquehem (born August 25, 1847 in Troppau , † April 22, 1917 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician.

Live and act

He was the son of an Austrian major and came from the old French emigrant family Bacquehem . In his youth he attended the Theresian Knight Academy , studied law in Vienna and, after completing his studies, entered the state justice service, then the administrative service and was employed as the presidential secretary in the Ministry of Education. He then worked in the provincial administration. He worked for nine years in Bosnia as governor's council and in 1882 became president of Silesia.

At the instigation of his uncle, the Imperial and Royal Prime Minister Count Eduard Taaffe , he was appointed Austrian Minister of Commerce on June 26, 1886. From November 11, 1893, when Prince Alfred III. zu Windisch-Grätz succeeded Taaffe as Prime Minister, he held the office of Minister of the Interior. From 1895, when Erich von Kielmansegg took up the post of Prime Minister on an interim basis, until 1898 he was governor in Styria and from 1908 to 1917 he was President of the Administrative Court.

His only sister, Marquise Asterie de Bacquehem († May 20, 1914 in Linz ), was the canon of the Brno noble women's monastery .

literature

• Bacquehem Oliver Marquis de. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 42.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) † Marquise Asterie de Bacquehem. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 17866/1914, May 22, 1914, p. 1, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). .