Géza Fejérváry

Géza Baron Fejervary of Komlás - Keresztes ( born March 15, 1833 in Josefstadt, Bohemia, † April 25, 1914 in Vienna) was a general, politician, and 1905/ 06 Prime Minister of Hungary.

Life

Fejervary Theresa graduated from the Military Academy and in 1851 lieutenant. He was a captain of the general staff participants in the Battle of Solferino which he was awarded the Maria Theresa Order. In 1864 he led the 6th Infantry Regiment in the war against Denmark. In 1868 he was lieutenant colonel. 1872 to 1884 he served as State Secretary in the Ministry Honvéd and then to 1903 in the Hungarian Ministry of Defence. 1875 Baron Fejervary was appointed Baron and member of the Hungarian magnate house. Since 1882 he also carried the title Privy Council. In Fejervary 1903 Land Defence Minister of Hungary who successfully took care of the expansion of Honvéd Landwehr. In addition, he was commander of the Hungarian bodyguard.

Prime minister

In the Hungarian parliamentary elections in 1905, the Liberal Party lost for the first time since the 1867 settlement of its majority, the Independence Party under Francis Kossuth led a parliamentary majority. Point of contention between the throne and the opposition was mainly the abolition of the German command language in the Joint Army.

As head of government of a caretaker government on June 18, 1905 used by King Ferenc József, Fejervary faced a majority of opposition parties in Budapest Reichstag. The opposition described the government as unconstitutional because it sprang to any parliamentary majority. Therefore Fejervary ruled with the help of the king, who prorogued Parliament on several occasions, pass the Parliament. The opposition then called the " national resistance " against the " gendarmes government" of, recruitment and tax payments have been denied in many counties. Fejervary offered his immediate resignation, which was rejected by the king.

Interior Minister Jósef Kristóffy, the real head of the Cabinet, then started to negotiate with the Social Democrats and left-wing liberals, whom he introduced reforms in the electoral law and social policy in view. However, the planned Fejervary universal suffrage threatened the power of the national Magyar aristocratic elite. An explosive domestic political climate was created, in the Vienna War Department were built by General Beck plans developed ( " case U" for Hungary) quell a possible uprising in Hungary by force. On February 19, 1906 Franz Joseph and Fejervary could occupy militarily even the parliament building by the Honvéd. But the mood in the population and civil taught gradually against the opposition and finally agreed on a compromise candidate Sándor Wekerle as the new Premier, why Fejervary on April 8, 1906, finally resigned.

In the Hungarian Upper House, he was a life member. He was awarded with the Grand Cross of the Ku St. Stephen's Order.