Franz Anton von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky

Count Franz Anton von Kolowrat Liebsteinsky ( Czech František Antonín Kolovrat Libštejnský ) ( born January 31, 1778 in Prague, † April 4, 1861 in Vienna) was Czech nobleman and Austrian statesman, who as a moderate liberal with an opponent of Prince Metternich, the Congress of Vienna was, although both were of the Austrian Empire. Kolowrat was a member of the Council of Regency for Emperor Ferdinand I.

Life

Franz Anton Graf Kolowrat Liebsteinsky came from a family of the Bohemian nobility, and was therefore, as he was Austrian officials from Bohemia, was appointed Colonel Viscount of Prague. This position corresponded to the title of an Austrian governor of Bohemia. He was a lifelong admirer and supporter of the Bohemian- Czech culture, the development of which he greatly promoted in the years 1809-1826. But not only the culture, even the Bohemian National efforts met with the approval of Count Kolowrat Liebsteinsky. Franz Anton was not only needed as a provincial official, under Emperor Francis I and Ferdinand I, he was the financial and administrative expert par excellence.

When he was reassigned in 1826 from his governor post, Emperor Franz I made ​​him a Minister of State. Count Franz Anton had thus largely to direct the internal political affairs of Austria. Franz Anton was from December 12, 1836 to March Revolution on March 13, 1848 Member of the Austrian Secret State Conference. The politician regarded as liberal was responsible for domestic politics and the finances.

When Emperor Francis I died in 1835, his mentally retarded son Ferdinand I. ascended the Austrian throne. The regency was exercised by the Privy Conference, in which the two statesmen Metternich and Kolowrat Liebsteinsky set the tone. But the differences that existed between Chancellor and Minister of State, the internal politics of Austria brought to a virtual standstill. The stalemate was characteristic of the era of the pre-March period.

As a result of the March Revolution of 1848 the hated because of his stoic conservatism Prince Metternich was forced to resign and there was formed a Council of Ministers, headed by Count Kolowrat Liebsteinsky was appointed. He was the first constitutional prime minister of the Austrian monarchy. But this office he held only from March 20 to April 19 of the year 1848. Thereafter his political career sounded leisurely, without again attracting quite a stir.

Count Kolowrat Liebsteinsky was president of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences and founder of the National Museum, to which he donated his mineralogical collection and library.

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