Sándor Wekerle
Sándor Wekerle | |
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Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary | |
In office 17 November 1892 – 14 January 1895 | |
Monarch | Francis Joseph I |
Preceded by | Gyula Szapáry |
Succeeded by | Dezső Bánffy |
In office 8 April 1906 – 17 January 1910 | |
Monarch | Francis Joseph I |
Preceded by | Géza Fejérváry |
Succeeded by | Károly Khuen-Héderváry |
In office 20 August 1917 – 30 October 1918 | |
Monarch | Charles IV |
Preceded by | Móric Esterházy |
Succeeded by | János Hadik |
Personal details | |
Born | Sándor | 14 November 1848
Profession | Jurist, Politician |
Sándor Wekerle (English: Alexander Wekerle; 14 November 1848 – 26 August 1921) was a Hungarian politician who served three times as prime minister. He was the first non-noble to hold the office in Hungary.
Biography
He was born in
In 1886 Wekerle was elected to the House of Deputies, became in the same year financial secretary of state, and in 1889 succeeded Kálmán Tisza as minister of finance. He immediately addressed himself to the task of improving the financial position of the country, carried out the conversion of the state loans, and succeeded, for the first time in the history of the Hungarian budget, in avoiding a deficit.
In November 1892 Wekerle succeeded
Wekerle returned to power in 1917, and served for the last year of the
During the time of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, Wekerle was held prisoner as a hostage.[1]
Legacy
Wekerle died in Budapest, aged 72.
Notes
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- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. .
- ISBN 978-1-85109-879-8.
References
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Wekerle, Santor". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the