Agenor Maria Gołuchowski

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Agenor Gołuchowski

Count Agenor Maria Adam Gołuchowski (25 March 1849 – 28 March 1921) was a Polish

Imperial Russia, harmed due to the Austrian and Russian struggle for control of the Bosporus. From 1907 he headed the Polish Group in the Herrenhaus
, the upper chamber of the Austrian parliament.

Early life

He was a son of Count

Galicia.[1]

Entering the diplomatic service, the son was in 1872 appointed attaché to the Austrian embassy in Berlin, where he became secretary of legation, and thence he was transferred to Paris. After rising to the rank of counsellor of legation, he was in 1887 made minister at Bucharest, where he remained until 1893.[2]

Career

Gołuchowski at his desk, 1901.
Portrait of Gołuchowski, by Kazimierz Pochwalski.

In these positions he acquired a great reputation as a firm and skilful diplomatist, and on the retirement of

Count Kálnoky in May 1895 was chosen to succeed him as Austro-Hungarian minister for foreign affairs. The appointment of a Pole caused some surprise in view of the importance of Austrian relations with Russia (then rather strained) and Germany, but the choice was justified by events. In his speech of that year to the delegations he declared the maintenance of the Triple Alliance, and in particular the closest intimacy with Germany, to be the keystone of Austrian policy; at the same time he dwelt on the traditional friendship between Austria and Great Britain and expressed his desire for a good understanding with all the powers. In pursuance of this policy he effected an understanding with Russia, by which neither power was to exert any separate influence in the Balkan peninsula, and thus removed a long-standing cause of friction.[2]

This understanding was formally ratified during a visit to

mercantile marine, and of raising the fleet to a strength which, while not vying with the fleets of the great naval powers, would ensure respect for the Austrian flag wherever her interests needed protection. He also hinted at the necessity for European combination to resist American competition.[2]

The understanding with Russia in the matter of the Balkan states temporarily endangered friendly relations with Italy, who thought her interests threatened, until Gołuchowski guaranteed in 1898 the existing order. He further encouraged a good understanding with Italy by personal conferences with the Italian foreign minister, Tommaso Tittoni, in 1904 and 1905.[3]

Count

Wilhelm II of Germany telegraphed to Gołuchowski: "You have proved yourself a brilliant second on the duelling ground and you may feel certain of like services from me in similar circumstances". This pledge was redeemed in 1908, when Germany's support of Austria in the Balkan crisis proved conclusive.[4]

By the Hungarians, however, Gołuchowski was hated; he was suspected of having inspired the emperor's opposition to the use of Magyar in the Hungarian army, and was made responsible for the slight offered to the Magyar deputation by Franz Joseph I of Austria in September 1905. So long as he remained in office there was no hope of arriving at a settlement of a matter which threatened the disruption of the Dual Monarchy, and on the 11 October 1906 he was forced to resign.[4]

From 1895, he was also a conservative member of the

Imperial Parliament in Vienna, and from 1907 was chairman of the influential “Poland Block,” the group of Polish members.[citation needed
]

Once

First World War, he supported the ‘Austrian solution', that is joining Congress Poland to Austria, thus marinating the ‘dual’ (Austria and Hungary) monarchy, as opposed to the ‘tripartite’ solution of uniting Congress Poland with Austrian Galicia as a third constituent part of a Triple Monarchy (Austria, Hungary, and Poland).[5]

Personal life

Gołuchowski was married to Princess Anna Napoléona Karolina Alexandrine Murat (1863–1940), a daughter of

King of Naples.[6]
They were the parents of:

He died in Lwów on 29 March 1921.[10]

Honours

He received the following orders and decorations:[11][12]

Notes

  1. Encyclopedia Britannica
    . Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Chisholm 1911, p. 227.
  3. ^ Chisholm 1911, pp. 227–228.
  4. ^ a b Chisholm 1911, p. 228.
  5. ISBN 3-205-00527-9
    , S. 232-233 und 239
  6. ISBN 978-1-55753-140-7
    . Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  7. ISBN 978-83-89188-46-5
    . Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  8. ^ "Wojciech Maria Agenor Gołuchowski". www.biogramy.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  9. ^ "Gołuchowski Wojciech Maria Agenor". bs.sejm.gov.pl. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  10. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Goluchowski, Agenor, Count" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 31 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 297.
  11. ^ "Gemeinsame (Reichs-) Ministerien, Heer, Kriegsmarine und Gemeinsamer Oberster Rechnungshof", Hof- und Staatshandbuch der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie, 1906, p. 247, retrieved 14 April 2021
  12. ^ Jerzy Sewer Dunin-Borkowski (1908), Almanach Błękitny, Warsaw, pp. 373, 376–377{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  13. ^ Königlich Preussische Ordensliste (in German), vol. 1, Berlin: Gedruckt in der Reichsdruckerei, 1886, p. 832 – via hathitrust.org
  14. ^ "Schwarzer Adler-orden", Königlich Preussische Ordensliste (supp.) (in German), vol. 1, Berlin: Gedruckt in der Reichsdruckerei, 1895, p. 5 – via hathitrust.org
  15. ^ The London Gazette, issue 27604, p. 6148
  16. ^ Italia : Ministero dell'interno (1898). Calendario generale del Regno d'Italia. Unione tipografico-editrice. p. 54.
  17. ^ "Real y distinguida orden de Carlos III". Guía Oficial de España (in Spanish). 1907. p. 150. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  18. ^ Sveriges statskalender (in Swedish), 1905, p. 441, retrieved 2020-07-20 – via runeberg.org

References

Preceded by
Count Kálnoky
Chairman of the Ministers' Council for Common Affairs of Austria-Hungary

1895–1906 		Succeeded by
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