Граф Ричард Белкред

Высокий Ричард Граф фон Белкред
Граф Ричард Белкред
5 -й председатель конференции министров Австрийской империи
In office 27 July 1865 – 7 February 1867
Monarch	Franz Joseph I
Preceded by	Alexander Graf von Mensdorff-Pouilly
Succeeded by	Friedrich Ferdinand Graf von Beust
Interior Minister of the Austrian Empire
In office 27 July 1865 – 7 February 1867
Preceded by	Anton von Schmerling
Succeeded by	Friedrich Ferdinand Graf von Beust
Personal details
Born	(1823-02-12)12 February 1823 Jimramov, Moravia, Austrian Empire
Died	2 December 1902(1902-12-02) (aged 79) Gmunden, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary

Граф Ричард фон Белкред ( немецкий : Ричард Граф Белкреды ; 12 февраля 1823 г. - 2 декабря 1902 года) был Австрии , государственным служащим и государственным деятелем который служил министром (и «Государственный министр») Австрийской империи с 1865 по 1867 год. В течение 1881–1895 гг. Белкред был президентом Административного суда Цислитании .

Ранняя жизнь и происхождение

Ричард Граф фон Белкреди родился 12 февраля 1823 года в Джимрамове (Ингровиц), в маргравиате Моравии , Младший сын графа Эдуарда фон Белкреда (1786–1838) и его жены графиня Мария фон Фюнфкирхен (1790–1860). У него была одна сестра, графиня Алмерия (1819-1914), которая вышла замуж за принца Хьюго Максимилиана фон Турна и такси (1817-1889). Семья Белкреда Нобла первоначально произошла из Ломбардии они были наделены поместьями Павезе герцогами Монтальто Милана , где . Предки графа Ричарда поселились в Моравии с 1769 года.

He studied law at the universities of Prague and Vienna; in 1854, he was appointed district captain (Bezirkshauptmann) in Znojmo (Znaim). In 1861, he was elected member of the Landtag diet of Austrian Silesia and MP of the Imperial Council. He became head of the Austrian Silesian regional government one year later. In 1864, he was promoted to the official rank of Geheimrat (Secret Councillor) and appointed Imperial-Royal governor of Bohemia in Prague.

Three Count Ministry

In February 1865, Count Richard Belcredi, as the Austrian minister of state, convened a meeting of Viennese bankers to find ways to finance projects. In June 1865, Emperor Franz Josef I chose Belcredi, a declared Conservative, to become Prime Minister and Minister of State, replacing the government of Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria and Anton von Schmerling, who had resigned after failure in his Liberal centralizing policies. Belcredi accepted his nomination, by his own accounts only from a sense of duty. His cabinet was called the "Three Count Ministry" although, actually, four counts were in charge: Minister President Belcredi himself, Alexander von Mensdorff-Pouilly as foreign minister, Johann Larisch von Moennich as finance minister, and Moritz Esterházy de Galantha as a minister without portfolio.

The Austrian government had to face the rising "Hungarian question", that eventually led to the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867. On 20 September 1865, Belcredi had the 1861 February Patent suspended. Against delaying actions by Belcredi, the Compromise was achieved after the Austrian defeat in the Austro-Prussian War and the 1866 Peace of Prague, ending the monarchy's membership in the German Confederation. On October 30, Foreign Minister Mensdorff-Pouilly was succeeded by Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust who conducted the negotiations with Hungary and prepared a draft for the Cisleithanian December Constitution.

Beust's concept of a Dual Monarchy finally prevailed against Belcredi's plans to implement a federation of the Austrian crown lands, similar to later proposals of United States of Greater Austria. On 7 February 1867, Belcredi handed in his resignation. In 1881 he was appointed president of the Imperial-Royal Administrative Court and life member of the Austrian House of Lords.

Orders and decorations

• Austrian Empire:
  • Grand Cross of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen, 1867
  • Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, 1878
• Kingdom of Prussia: Knight of the Royal Order of the Crown, 1st Class, 29 July 1864

References

• "Belcredi, Richard Graf" (bio), aeiou Encyclopedia, 2008, webpage: AEIOU-Belcredi.
• Ludwig Graf Belcredi, "Fragmente aus dem Nachlasse des ehemaligen Staatsministers Grafen Richard Belcredi" ("Fragments from the Literary Legacy of Former Minister Count Richard Belcredi"), in: Die Kultur. Vierteljahresschrift für Wissenschaft, Literatur und Kunst 7 (1906).

External links

• Otto (in Czech)
• «Белкреды, Ричард Граф» (Bio), Aeiou Encyclopedia , 2008, веб-страница: Aeiou-Belcredi .
• Государственный министр против Уилла ( ред .: Парламентская корреспонденция, Вена, 2001 г.) Архивировал 2016-03-03 на машине Wayback