Clotilde Apponyi
| Clotilde Wilhelmine | |
|---|---|
| Countess Albert Apponyi de Nagy-Aponyi | |
 Countess Clotilde, aged 30 | |
| Born | Klotild Wilhelmine von Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein 23 December 1867 |
| Died | 1 September 1942 (aged 74) |
| Spouse | |
| Issue | György II Alexander Apponyi Mária Alexandrina Apponyi Julianna Apponyi |
| Father | Alexander von Mensdorff-Pouilly |
| Mother | Alexandrine von Dietrichstein-Proskau-Leslie |
Clotilde "Klotild" Apponyi (née Klotild Wilhelmine von Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein; 23 December 1867 – 1 September 1942) was an Austro-Hungarian noblewoman, women's rights activist and a diplomat.
Early life
[edit]Apponyi was the daughter of the Austrian politician Prince Alexander von Dietrichstein-Nikolsburg and his wife, Countess Alexandrine Aline von Dietrichstein-Proskau-Leslie (1824-1906), second daughter and heiress of Joseph Franz, Prince of Dietrichstein.[1]
Career
[edit]Apponyi was president of the Klotild association for the selling of women's work from 1908, president for the alliance of Hungarian women's associations (MNSz) from 1910, board member of the Catholic protection society for women from 1913, president for the Maria Dorotea association for women teachers from 1930, as well as for numerous other charitable associations. As president of the MNSz, she addressed the Hungarian parliament in favor of women's suffrage in 1912, and supported this reform in public in 1918. After World War I, she, as president of the MNSz, became the spokesperson of the non-socialist women's associations of Hungary in oppose to the leftist MANSz under Cécile Tormay. In 1929, she protested against the suggestion to abolish women's right to run for office, and in 1939, she did the same against the suggestion to ban married women from holding office as civil servants.[1]
During World War I, she was an informal diplomat for Hungary in Switzerland, and she served as a sub-delegate to the League of Nations in Geneva in 1928-34, and as a delegate for Hungary in 1935-37.[1]
Personal life
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On 1 March 1897 in Vienna, she married Hungarian politician Count Albert Apponyi de Nagy-Aponyi, who was a leading member of the powerful Apponyi family. Together, they were the parents of:[2]
- Count György II Alexander Apponyi de Nagy-Aponyi (1898–1970), a politician, member of the Parliament, journalist.[3]
- Mária Alexandrina Apponyi de Nagy-Aponyi (1899–1967), who married Prince Karl de Rohan in 1933.
- Julianna Apponyi de Nagy-Aponyi (1903–1994), who married Count Ferenc Pálffy in 1924. They divorced in 1934 and she married Elemér Klobusiczky in 1943. They divorced in 1947.
Countess Apponyi died on 1 September 1942.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Francisca de Haan, Krasimira Daskalova & Anna Loutfi: Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Easterna and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th centuries Central European University Press, 2006.
- ^ Hörcher, Ferenc; Tóth, Kálmán (15 June 2023). 19th-Century Hungarian Political Thought and Culture: Towards Settlement with Austria, 1790-1867. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 31, 151. ISBN 978-1-350-20293-1.
- ^ Fritz-Klinger, Regina (10 May 2021). Ungarn 1944–1945 (in German). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 428. ISBN 978-3-11-060576-1. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
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