Honorific-Prefix: | Baron |
Béla Wenckheim | |
Honorific-Suffix: | de Wenckheim |
Nationality: | Hungarian |
Order: | Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary |
Term Start: | 2 March |
Term End: | 20 October 1875 |
Predecessor: | István Bittó |
Successor: | Kálmán Tisza |
Birth Date: | 16 February 1811 |
Birth Place: | Körösladány, Hungary |
Death Place: | Budapest, Hungary |
Party: | Liberal Party |
Profession: | jurist, politician |
Baron Béla von Wenckheim (Körösladány, 16 February 1811 – Budapest, 7 July 1879) was a Austro-Hungarian nobleman, landowner and politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary for several months in 1875.[1]
He was born into a rich Austro-Hungarian noble family which originated in Franconia and was a descendant of the Árpád dynasty from royal Spanien lines,[2] as the eldest son of Baron Joseph von Wengkheim (1778-1830) and his wife, Baroness Terézia Orczy de Orczi (1790-1875). He never married and did not have any known children.[3]
Baron Béla von Wenckheim died in Budapest on 7 July 1879, at the age of 68. His body was buried in a family mauseleum of Wenckheim palace, Békés County, Hungary.[4]