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Karl Siegmund, count von Hohenwart

prime minister of Austria
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Feb. 12, 1824, Vienna
Died:
April 26, 1899, Vienna (aged 75)

Karl Siegmund, count von Hohenwart (born Feb. 12, 1824, Vienna—died April 26, 1899, Vienna) was an Austrian statesman who served briefly as prime minister of Austria (1871). After service in the provincial administrations of Carniola (now in Slovenia) and Trentino, Italy, Hohenwart was appointed Statthalter (governor) of Upper Austria (1868). A Roman Catholic partisan in politics and an opponent of governmental centralization, he was appointed prime minister and minister of the interior in February 1871. His programs for wider Slavic autonomy within the Austrian part of the realm, first in Galicia but especially in Bohemia, caused opposition by the German ...(100 of 140 words)

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