Karl Wilhelm Philipp, 8th Prince of Auersperg, Duke of Gottschee (; 1 May 1814 in

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– 4 January 1890 in

) was a Bohemian and an

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n nobleman and statesman. He served as the first Minister-President of Cisleithania and the first President of the Austrian

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(''Herrenhaus'').

Biography

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following the

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of the post-revolutionary era. He became head of the princely House at the age of thirteen on the death of his Father, Wilhelm II of Auersperg (1782–1827). In 1851 he married Countess Ernestine Festetics de Tolna, daughter of Count Ernő János Vilmos. As he died without issue, he was succeeded by his nephew

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, the son of his brother

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Political career

On the advent of the new constitutional era, in 1861, he became a member of the Upper Chamber of the Reichsrat and eventually its President. As a representative of the Liberal landed proprietors of the Diet of Bohemia, and afterward as President of the Austrian House of Peers (''Herrenhaus''), he took a conspicuous part in defending the constitutional system against clerical and feudal reaction and the union of the

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. He presided over the Austrian ministry as the 1st Minister-President of Cisleithania as a result of the reorganisation of the Empire following the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867. After the term of his ministry he kept being a zealous supporter of Liberal cabinets. From 28 November 1871 to 15 February 1879, his brother Prince Adolf Wilhelm Daniel von Auersperg was also to be Minister-President of Cisleithania (the 8th).

Honours

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, ''1852'' (

) * Grand Cross of St. Stephen, ''1863'' (Austrian Empire)

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