Alois Lexa von AehrenthalW
Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal

Alois Leopold Johann Baptist Graf Lexa von Aehrenthal was an Austrian diplomat. As Imperial Foreign Minister Aehrenthal formulated and executed the formal and complete annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and their integration into the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1908. With the annexation he sought to permanently block in the Balkan south of the Empire the emergence of inter- and intra-ethnic nationalisms amongst the multiplicity of peoples there on the basis of their shared religious beliefs and ethnic affiliations. His actions precipitated an international crisis because he sought to achieve his objectives by negotiation of Russian acceptance of the annexation in exchange for Austrian support for greater Russian access from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean through the Straits of the Dardanelles, which Britain and France would supposedly accept since they had recently become allied with Imperial Russia. Aehrenthal, seeking to limit objections in Russia to any support for the annexation began secret negotiations with Russian foreign minister Alexander Izvolsky. The annexation ultimately damaged Austro-Russian collaboration on settling Balkan questions. Also, it stirred chauvinist popular emotion in Russia, which felt humiliated in a sphere of vital interest to it.

Gyula AndrássyW
Gyula Andrássy

Count Gyula Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka was a Hungarian statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Hungary (1867–1871) and subsequently as Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (1871–1879). Andrássy was a conservative; his foreign policies looked to expanding the Empire into Southeast Europe, preferably with British and German support, and without alienating Turkey. He saw Russia as the main adversary, because of its own expansionist policies toward Slavic and Orthodox areas. He distrusted Slavic nationalist movements as a threat to his multi-ethnic empire.

Albert ApponyiW
Albert Apponyi

Albert György Gyula Mária Apponyi, Count of Nagyappony was a Hungarian aristocrat and politician. He was a Board Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of St Stephen Academy (hu) from 1921 to 1933, and a knight of the Austrian Golden Fleece from 1921.

Miklós BánffyW
Miklós Bánffy

Count Miklós Bánffy de Losoncz was a Hungarian nobleman, liberal politician, and historical novelist. His books include The Transylvanian Trilogy, and The Phoenix Land.

Leopold BerchtoldW
Leopold Berchtold

Leopold Anton Johann Sigismund Josef Korsinus Ferdinand Graf Berchtold von und zu Ungarschitz, Frättling und Püllütz, was an Austro-Hungarian politician, diplomat and statesman who served as Imperial Foreign Minister at the outbreak of World War I.

Janez BleiweisW
Janez Bleiweis

Janez Bleiweis was a Slovene conservative politician, journalist, physician, veterinarian, and public figure. He was the leader of the so-called Old Slovene political movement. Already during his lifetime, he was called father of the nation.

Etbin Henrik CostaW
Etbin Henrik Costa

Etbin Henrik Costa was a Slovene national conservative politician and author. Together with Janez Bleiweis and Lovro Toman, he was one of the leaders of the Old Slovene political party.

Alcide De GasperiW
Alcide De Gasperi

Alcide Amedeo Francesco De Gasperi was an Italian statesman who founded the Christian Democracy party and served as Prime Minister of Italy in eight successive coalition governments from 1945 to 1953.

Karel DežmanW
Karel Dežman

Karel Dežman, also known as Dragotin Dežman and Karl Deschmann, was a Carniolan liberal politician and natural scientist. He was one of the most prominent personalities of the political, cultural, and scientific developments in the 19th-century Duchy of Carniola. He is considered one of the fathers of modern archeology in what is today Slovenia. He also made important contributions in botany, zoology, mineralogy, geology and mineralogy. He was the first director of the Provincial Museum of Carniola, now the National Museum of Slovenia. Due to his switch from Slovene liberal nationalism to Austrian centralism and pro-German cultural stances, he became a symbol of national renegadism.

Andrej EinspielerW
Andrej Einspieler

Andrej Einspieler was a Slovene politician, Roman Catholic priest and journalist, and one of the early leaders of the Old Slovene national movement in the 19th century. He was known as the "father of the Carinthian Slovenes".

Ivan FrankoW
Ivan Franko

Ivan Yakovych Franko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, interpreter, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in the Ukrainian language.

Cyril GenikW
Cyril Genik

Cyril Ivanovich Genik was a Ukrainian-Canadian immigration agent. He is a Person of National Historic Significance.

Carl GiskraW
Carl Giskra

Carl Giskra was a statesman of the Austrian Empire.

Nikša GradiW
Nikša Gradi

Nikola "Nikša" Gradi Italian: Nicolò Gradi; 1825–1894) was a writer, politician, and lawyer from Dubrovnik, a descendant of the illustrious Ragusan patrician family Gradi.

Béla GrünwaldW
Béla Grünwald

Béla Ferenc József Grünwald de Bártfa was a Hungarian nationalist politician and historian who was active in Upper Hungary.

Prince Konrad of Hohenlohe-SchillingsfürstW
Prince Konrad of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst

Konrad Maria Eusebius Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst was an Austrian aristocrat and statesman. He briefly served as Prime Minister of Austria (Cisleithania) in Austria–Hungary in 1906.

Count Karl Sigmund von HohenwartW
Count Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart

Count Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart was an Austrian politician who served as Minister-President of Austria in 1871. Hohenwart’s government attempted to implement a Federalist agreement between Bohemia and the governing Austro-Hungarian Empire. This attempt to conciliate the Bohemian Czechs caused massive criticism, and led to the fall of the Hohenwart government only months after it assumed office.

Sándor Hollán Jr.W
Sándor Hollán Jr.

Sándor József Hollán the Younger was a Hungarian politician and state secretary.

Sándor Hollán Sr.W
Sándor Hollán Sr.

Sándor József Hollán the Elder was a Hungarian politician and state secretary.

Sepp JankoW
Sepp Janko

Josef "Sepp" Janko was a Volksgruppenführer of the Danube Swabian German Cultural Association in Yugoslavia in 1939, and later was appointed SS Obersturmführer during World War II.

Count Gustav KálnokyW
Count Gustav Kálnoky

Count Gustav Siegmund Kálnoky, was an Austro-Hungarian diplomat and statesman.

Karel LavričW
Karel Lavrič

Karel Lavrič, also spelled Laurič or Lauritsch, was a Carniolan liberal politician and lawyer from the Austrian Littoral. He was of Slovene descent and was one of the most prominent activists of the Young Slovene movement. Together with the conservative Lovro Toman, he was considered among the most popular Slovene politicians of the 19th century. He was also called the 'tribune of Goriška'.

György Majláth (1818–1883)W
György Majláth (1818–1883)

György Majláth, also known by his German name Georg von Majláth, was a Hungarian politician.

Ivan NaumovichW
Ivan Naumovich

Ivan Grigorievitch Naumovich (Polish: Iwan Naumowicz, Russian: Ива́н Григо́рьевич Наумо́вич, Ukrainian: Іва́н Григо́рович Нау́мович;, was a priest, member of parliament, writer, and major figure in the Russophile movement in western Ukraine. His article Glimpse into the future was considered the most important manifesto of Galician Russophilism

Anton Pace von FriedensbergW
Anton Pace von Friedensberg

Count Anton Pace, Baron of Friedensberg was an Austrian aristocrat, politician, senior government official, and Imperial and Royal Privy Councilman. He served as the President of Bukovina and later as a life member of the Imperial Council of Austria-Hungary.

Anton von Prokesch-OstenW
Anton von Prokesch-Osten

Anton von Prokesch-Osten, German: Anton Graf Prokesch von Osten was an Austrian diplomat, statesman and general.

Franz SchuselkaW
Franz Schuselka

Franz Schuselka was a politician of the Austrian Empire.

Vasyl StefanykW
Vasyl Stefanyk

Vasyl Semenovych Stefanyk was an influential Ukrainian modernist writer and political activist. He was a member of the Austrian parliament from 1908 to 1918.

Emil SteinbachW
Emil Steinbach

Emil Robert Wilhelm Steinbach was an Austrian politician.

Ivan ŠusteršičW
Ivan Šusteršič

Ivan Šusteršič, also spelled Šušteršič was a Slovenian lawyer and politician.

Lovro TomanW
Lovro Toman

Lovro Toman was a Slovene Romantic nationalist revolutionary activist during the Revolution of 1848, known as the person who in Ljubljana, at the Wolf Street 8, raised the Slovene tricolor for the first time in history in response to a German flag raised on top of the Ljubljana Castle. Later he helped founding one of the first Slovene publishing houses, the Slovenska matica. He was a Slovene national conservative politician and member of the Austrian Parliament. Together with Janez Bleiweis and Etbin Henrik Costa, he was part of the leadership of the Old Slovene party.

Joseph UngerW
Joseph Unger

Joseph Unger was an Austrian jurist and statesman. Having studied law at the university of his native city, he in 1850 was appointed assistant librarian, and in 1852 privatdozent, at his alma mater. The following year he was called to Prague as assistant professor at the university, and in 1855 to Vienna in a similar capacity. In 1857 he was appointed professor of jurisprudence at the latter institution. In 1867 he was successively elected a member of the Austrian Landtag and of the Reichsrat; but on account of ill health he had to resign in the following year. Appointed in 1869 by the Emperor Franz Joseph a life-member of the House of Lords, he soon became the whip of the Liberal Party. Two years later he became minister in Prince Auersperg's cabinet, but resigned upon the prime minister's defeat in 1879. In 1881 he was appointed president of the Reichsgericht. Unger converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism in 1852.

Georg Wassilko von SereckiW
Georg Wassilko von Serecki

Count Georg Wassilko von Serecki, descended from an old Modavian boyar family, was an Austro-Hungarian-born ethnic Romanian statesman, Landeshauptmann of the Duchy of Bucovina and hereditary member of the Herrenhaus, the Upper House of the Imperial Council of Austria.

Salo WeisselbergerW
Salo Weisselberger

Dr. Salo Weisselberger, Jewish leader, jurist and judge, was a member of Bukovina's Landtag during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Mayor of Czernowitz in 1912–1914, a member of the Senate of Romania, and then a member of its Chamber of Deputies.

Samson WertheimerW
Samson Wertheimer

Samson Wertheimer was chief rabbi of Hungary and Moravia, and rabbi of Eisenstadt. He was also an Austrian financier, court Jew and Shtadlan to Austrian Emperor Leopold I.