József Kristóffy

Jósef Kristóffy ( born September 17, 1857 in Mako, Hungary, † March 29, 1928 in Budapest) was a politician and 1905/ 06 Minister of the Interior of Hungary.

Life

Kristóffy studied law at the universities of Budapest and Vienna. He then worked as Komitatsbeamter and went in 1896 for the Liberal Party as a deputy to the Hungarian Parliament. In 1903 he became senior team in the county of Satu Mare

As a member of a government official, he was from June 18, 1905 to April 8, 1906 Minister of the Interior of the government of General Géza Fejervary. The government faced a majority of opposition parties in the Parliament in Budapest. 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. Kristóffy ruled on the " national resistance " with harsh police measures. Fejervary offered his immediate resignation, which was rejected by the king.

Then took Kristóffy, the real head of the Cabinet, negotiations with the social democrats and left liberals to whom he introduced reforms in the electoral law and social policy in view. However, the planned 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. But the mood in the population and civil taught gradually against the opposition and finally agreed on a compromise candidate Sándor Wekerle as new prime minister why the government with Kristóffy on April 8, 1906, finally resigned.

Kristóffy withdrew temporarily from political life back, but went as a representative of Békéscsaba with his franchise program again from 1911 to 1913 into Parliament. He was for a time a member of the circle of Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand, who wanted to limit the prerogatives of Hungary.