Agenor Romuald Gołuchowski Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Count
Agenor Romuald Gołuchowski
Office:Interior Minister of the Austrian Empire
Term Start:22 August 1859
Term End:13 December 1860
Primeminister:Count Johann Bernhard von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen
Predecessor:Baron Alexander von Bach
Successor:Anton von Schmerling
Birth Date:8 February 1812
Birth Place:Skala-Podilska, Galicia
Death Place:Lwów, Galicia

Count Agenor Romuald Gołuchowski (8 February 1812, Skala-Podilska, Galicia – 3 August 1875, Lwów, Galicia) was a Polish-Austrian conservative politician, member of parliament of Austria, Minister of Interior and governor of Galicia, and father of Agenor Maria Gołuchowski and Adam Gołuchowski. Gołuchowski was a confidant and key advisor to the Emperor Franz Joseph.[1]

He was the author of the 1860 October Diploma, which ended the era of absolutism in Austrian Empire.

George Walter Prothero writes that Gołuchowski was instrumental in ensuring "steady support of the monarchy" among the upper classes of Galicia:

He was himself a Pole, though a strong opponent of revolution. He had clear aims for the economic improvement of Galicia, which he believed could only be attained by banishing distrust of the Poles from the mind of the Government. He realized also that this could be best accomplished by creating a party in Galicia upon whose loyalty the dynasty could rely.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Paul Robert Magocsi. A History of Ukraine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (1996), p. 418
  2. Book: Prothero , G W . George Walter Prothero

    . H.M. Stationery Office, London, via World Digital Library. George Walter Prothero. Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section. Austrian Poland. Peace handbooks. 2014-06-05. 1920. 21.