Béla Wenckheim
Appearance
Béla Wenckheim de Wenckheim | |
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Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary | |
In office 2 March – 20 October 1875 | |
Monarch | Francis Joseph I |
Preceded by | István Bittó |
Succeeded by | Kálmán Tisza |
Personal details | |
Born | Körösladány, Hungary | 16 February 1811
Died | 7 July 1879 Budapest, Hungary | (aged 68)
Political party | Liberal Party |
Profession | jurist, politician |
Baron Béla Wenckheim (Körösladány, 16 February 1811 – Budapest, 7 July 1879) was a Austro-Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary for several months in 1875.[1]
Biography
[edit]He was born into a rich Austro-Hungarian noble family which originated in Franconia and was a descendant of the Árpád-family from royal Spanien lines,[2] as the eldest son of Baron Joseph von Wengkheim (1778-1830) and his wife, Baroness Terézia Orczy de Orczi (1790-1875). He never married and didn't have children.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Burke, Edmund (1903). The Annual Register. Rivingtons. p. 117.
- ^ http://www.arcanum.com/hu/online-kiadvanyok/Turul-turul-1883-1950-1/1904-E3A4/1904-1-E3A5/a-spanyol-kiralyok-magyar-verei-E451/
- ^ "Béla, Baron Wenckheim : Genealogics".
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