Landesprsident (Salzburg) - Eduard Taaffe, Sigmund Von Thun-Hohenstein, Otto Franz Graf Fnfkirchen, Levin Graf Schaffgotsch, Adolf Von Auersperg (English, German, Paperback)

Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Eduard Franz Joseph, 6. Graf von Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe, of Corren, 11th Baron of Ballymote, in the Peerage of Ireland (24 February 1833, Vienna - 29 November 1895, Ellischau/Nalovy) was an Austrian statesman. He was the second son of Louis Patrick John, 5. Graf von Taaffe, 9th Viscount Taaffe (1791 - 1855), a minister of justice in 1848 and president of the court of appeal. As a child, Eduard Taaffe was one of the chosen companions of the young archduke, afterwards emperor, Francis Joseph. In 1852, he entered public service. By the death of his elder brother, Charles, (1823-1873), a colonel in the Austrian army, Eduard Taaffe succeeded to the Austrian and Irish titles. He married in 1862 Countess Irma Tsaky, by whom he left four daughters and one son, Henry. In 1867 Taaffe became governor of Upper Austria, and the emperor offered him the post of minister of the interior in Beust's administration. In June he became vice-president of the ministry, and at the end of the year he entered the first ministry of the newly organized Austrian portion of the monarchy. For the next three years he took a very important part in the confused political changes, and probably more than any other politician represented the wishes of the emperor. Taaffe had entered the ministry as a German Liberal, but he soon took an intermediate position between the Liberal majority of the Berger ministry and the party which desired a federalistic amendment of the constitution and which was strongly supported at court. From September 1868 to January 1870, after the retirement of Auersperg, he was president of the cabinet. In 1870, the government broke up on the question of the revision of the constitution: Taaffe with Potocki and Berger wished to make some concessions to the Federalists; the Liberal majority wished to preserve undiminished the authority of the Reichsrat. The two parties presented memoranda to th...http://booksllc.net/?l=de