Paul IV Esterházy de Galantha

Family tree of the Esterházy princes

Prince Esterházy with the blue and yellow shoulder ribbon of the Order of the Iron Crown

Prince Paul IV. Esterházy de Galantha (born March 11, 1843 in Vienna , † August 22, 1898 at Lockenhaus Castle ) was an Austro-Hungarian diplomat and Hungarian politician and the tenth Esterházy majorate. In much of his lifetime, however, primogeniture was under sequestration (sequestration, 1865-1898).

Life

Paul, son of Nicholas III. , followed in the footsteps of his grandfather as an attaché in London and the Vatican , who among other things had been ambassador to London, which is why Paul's father had spent his youth in England.

After the Compromise of 1867 and the ensuing establishment of the dual monarchy, Paul withdrew from foreign policy. A few years later he turned to Hungarian domestic politics. He let himself be elected as a member of the Reichstag of the Kapúvár district and was appointed Obergespan of the counties Wieselburg and Ödenburg . In 1881 Franz Joseph I appointed him a Privy Councilor and in 1896 awarded him the highest order in the monarchy, the Order of the Golden Fleece , which several other members of his family had already received.

His majorat, which he began in 1894, was very short as he died four years after his father. Paul IV was followed by his son Nicholas IV.

Web links

• esterhazy.at The Princes Esterhazy, Paul IV.

predecessor	Office	successor
Nicholas III	Majoratsherr of the Esterházy family 1894–1898	Nicholas IV