Gyula Andrássy the Younger

Count Gyula Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka the Younger (Hungarian: Ifj. Andrássy Gyula; 30 June 1860 – 11 June 1929) was a Hungarian politician.

The native form of this personal name is ifjabb gróf csíkszentkirályi és krasznahorkai Andrássy Gyula. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Gyula Andrássy, Jr.
Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary
In office 24 October 1918 – 2 November 1918
Monarch	Charles I
Preceded by	Stephan Burián von Rajecz
Succeeded by	Ludwig von Flotow (liquidating)
Minister of the Interior of Hungary
In office 8 April 1906 – 17 January 1910
Prime Minister	Sándor Wekerle
Preceded by	József Kristóffy
Succeeded by	Károly Khuen-Héderváry
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary
In office 10 June 1894 – 15 January 1895
Prime Minister	Sándor Wekerle
Preceded by	Lajos Tisza
Succeeded by	Géza Fejérváry
Personal details
Born	(1860-06-30)June 30, 1860 Tőketerebes, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire
Died	11 June 1929(1929-06-11) (aged 68) Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
Political party	Liberal Party, Constitution Party, KNEP, Christian National Party
Profession	Politician

Biography

The second son of Count Gyula Andrássy and Countess Katinka Kendeffy, the younger Andrássy became under-secretary in the Sándor Wekerle ministry in 1892; in 1893, he became Minister of Education, and, in June 1894, he was appointed minister in attendance on the king, retiring in 1895 with Wekerle. In 1898, with his elder brother, he left the Liberal Party but returned to it after the fall of the Bánffy ministry. In 1905, he was one of the leaders of the Coalition which brought about the fall of the Liberal Tisza ministry. In 1906 he became Minister of the Interior in the compromise Wekerle cabinet and held that office until the fall of the ministry in 1909.

In 1912, he represented Austria-Hungary in the diplomatic endeavor to prevent the outbreak of the Balkan War. In 1915, he urged peacemaking and an extension of the franchise in Hungary. As Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary, in 1918, he declared the alliance with Germany dissolved and tried to conclude a separate peace. He retired from office in the same year was returned in 1920 to the National Assembly as non-partisan delegate. He subsequently became leader of the Christian National Party. He is the author of Ungarns Ausgleich mit Österreich vom Jahre 1867 (Ger. ed., Leipzig, 1897) and a work in Hungarian on the origins of the Hungarian state and constitution (Budapest, 1901). That book was translated into English and published as The Development of Hungarian Constitutional Liberty (London, 1908) His later works include Wer hat den Krieg verbrochen? Interessensolidarität des Deutschtums and Ungartums (translated by Ernest J. Euphrat and published in 1915 as "Whose Sin is the World-War?") and Diplomatie und Weltkrieg.

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

• Count József Andrássy Gyula Foundation
• Austrian Lexikon aeiou
• Newspaper clippings about Gyula Andrássy the Younger in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

Political offices
Preceded by Lajos Tisza	Minister besides the King 1894–1895	Succeeded by Géza Fejérváry
Preceded by József Kristóffy	Minister of the Interior 1906–1910	Succeeded by Károly Khuen-Héderváry
Preceded by István Burián	Joint Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary 1918	Succeeded by post abolished
Party political offices
Preceded by New party	Chairman of the Constitution Party 1905–1906	Succeeded by Kálmán Széll