Count Gyula Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka the Younger ( hu, Ifj. Andrássy Gyula; 30 June 1860 – 11 June 1929) was a Hungarian politician.

Biography

The second son of Count Gyula Andrássy and Countess

Katinka Kendeffy Countess Katinka Kendeffy de Malomvíz Andrássy (1830 – 16 May 1896) was a Hungarian noblewoman and the wife of Count Gyula Andrássy, who served as Prime Minister of Hungary (1867–1871) and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria-Hungary ...

, the younger Andrássy became under-secretary in the

Sándor Wekerle Sándor Wekerle (14 November 1848 – 26 August 1921) was a Hungarian politician who served three times as prime minister. He was the first non-noble to hold the office in Hungary. Biography He was born in Mór to a Danube Swabian family, i ...

ministry in 1892; in 1893, he became Minister of Education, and, in June 1894, he was appointed minister in attendance on the king, retiring in 1895 with Wekerle. In 1898, with his elder brother, he left the Liberal Party but returned to it after the fall of the Bánffy ministry. In 1905, he was one of the leaders of the Coalition which brought about the fall of the Liberal Tisza ministry. In 1906 he became Minister of the Interior in the compromise Wekerle cabinet and held that office until the fall of the ministry in 1909. In 1912, he represented

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in the diplomatic endeavor to prevent the outbreak of the

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. In 1915, he urged peacemaking and an extension of the franchise in

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. As

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, in 1918, he declared the alliance with

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dissolved and tried to conclude a separate peace. He retired from office in the same year was returned in 1920 to the National Assembly as non-partisan delegate. He subsequently became leader of the Christian National Party. He is the author of ''Ungarns Ausgleich mit Österreich vom Jahre 1867'' (Ger. ed., Leipzig, 1897) and a work in Hungarian on the origins of the Hungarian state and constitution (Budapest, 1901). That book was translated into

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and published as ''The Development of Hungarian Constitutional Liberty'' (London, 1908) His later works include ''Wer hat den Krieg verbrochen? Interessensolidarität des Deutschtums and Ungartums'' (translated by Ernest J. Euphrat and published in 1915 as "Whose Sin is the World-War?") and ''Diplomatie und Weltkrieg''.

References

External links

Count József Andrássy Gyula Foundation

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrassy, Gyula 1860 births 1929 deaths People from Trebišov Gyula Foreign ministers of Austria-Hungary Hungarian writers Hungarian monarchists Hungarian Interior Ministers Foreign ministers of Hungary Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Children of national leaders Children of prime ministers of Hungary Knights of the Golden Fleece of Austria