Agenor Maria Gołuchowski
Austrian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria-Hungary (1849-1921)
Count Agenor Maria Adam Gołuchowski (25 March 1849 – 28 March 1921) was a Polish statesman who inherited much of his father's wealth. Between 1895 and 1906 he served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria-Hungary. He was responsible for a period of détente in Austrian relations with Imperial Russia, harmed due to the Austrian and Russian struggle for control of the Bosporus. From 1907 he headed the Polish Group in the Herrenhaus, the upper chamber of the Austrian parliament.
Early life
He was a son of Count Agenor Gołuchowski, who descended from an old and noble Polish family, was governor of Galicia. His brother, Adam Gołuchowski, was also an MP and Marshal of Galicia.
Entering the diplomatic service, the son was in 1872 appointed attaché to the Austrian embassy in Berlin, where he became secretary of legation, and thence he was transferred to Paris. After rising to the rank of counsellor of legation, he was in 1887 made minister at Bucharest, where he remained until 1893.
Career
In these positions he acquired a great reputation as a firm and skillful diplomatist, and on the retirement of Count Kálnoky in May 1895 was chosen to succeed him as Austro-Hungarian minister for foreign affairs. The appointment of a Pole caused some surprise in view of the importance of Austrian relations with Russia (then rather strained) and Germany, but the choice was justified by events.
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