Agenor Romuald Gołuchowski

Agenor Romuald Gołuchowski Count of Gołuchowo ( born February 8, 1812 in Skala Podolska; † August 3, 1875 in Lviv ) was an Austrian minister and governor of Galicia. Because of gleichennamigen son, he is also Agenor Gołuchowski the Elder called.

Life

Agenor Gołuchowski received his education in Galicia and began his career in administration as governor Advisory Board. From 1849 to 1859 governor of Galicia, he gained with the implementation of the organization of the judiciary, establishment of schools and agricultural and humanitarian institutions, road construction, etc., and also by promoting the purposes of the Joseph -Maximilian- Ossolinskischen Institute in Lviv multiple merits.

Appointed Minister of the Interior after Alexander Bach's resignation on August 22, 1859, he took part in the reorganization of the Monarchy in federalist sense, which was to find its completion in October Diploma of 1860, was, however, difficult duties of his office and was no match for on December 13, 1860 by Anton Schmerling successor. The centralist Constitution of February 26, 1861 repugnant to his political beliefs so that he, although appointed hereditary member of the manor newly formed entirely withdrew from politics until he in September 1866 by Richard Graf Belcredis and Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust's influence again governor of Galicia was.

Discharged from the Civil Department in 1867, he was Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart 1871 for the third time governor of his native province, where he began since then as a member of the Polish nobility party for the reinforcement of the Polish position in Galicia. However, this was rated critical of parts of the population, especially the Ruthenians and the German culture as Polonization.

Works

• The K. and K. Consular Academy from 1754 to 1904. Studies in honor to celebrate the one hundred and fifty years' existence of the Academy and the opening of its new building. Published by the Imperial and Royal Ministry of the Imperial and Royal House and of Foreign Affairs, Vienna 1904.