Baron Anton von Doblhoff-Dier
{{short description|Austrian politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = Hochwohlgeboren
| name = Anton Freiherr von Doblhoff-Dier
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| image = Anton Doblhoff-Dier.jpg
| caption = Baron Anton von Doblhoff, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber, 1834
| office = Minister-President of the Austrian Empire
| term_start = 8 July 1848
| term_end = 18 July 1848
| monarch = Ferdinand I
| predecessor = Baron Franz von Pillersdorf
| successor = Baron Johann von Wessenberg-Ampringen
| order2 = Interior Minister of the Austrian Empire
| term_start2 = 8 July 1848
| term_end2 = October 1848
| monarch2 = Ferdinand I
| primeminister2 = Johann Freiherr von Wessenberg-Ampringen
| predecessor2 = Franz Freiherr von Pillersdorf
| successor2 = Franz Stadion Graf von Warthausen
| birth_date = {{birth date|1800|11|10|df=y}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1872|4|16|1800|11|10|df=y}}
| birth_place = Gorizia, Görz and Gradisca
| death_place = Vienna, Austria
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Baron Anton von Doblhoff-Dier ({{langx|de|Anton Freiherr von Doblhoff-Dier}}) (10 November 1800{{cite web |title=Doblhoff-Dier, Anton Freiherr von - Deutsche Biographie |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd101168128.html#ndbcontent |website=www.deutsche-biographie.de |access-date=22 October 2024 |language=de}} – 16 April 1872{{cite book |title=Jahrbuch der Grillparzer-Gesellschaft |date=1895 |publisher=Lehner |page=182 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eB5VOetPzTkC&dq=Anton+von+Doblhoff-Dier+%2216+april+1872%22&pg=PA182 |access-date=22 October 2024 |language=de}}) was an Austrian statesman.
Early life
Born in Gorizia into an Austrian noble family, he was the son of Joseph von Doblhoff-Dier (1770–1831) and his wife, Josepha von Buschmann (1773–1846).
Biography
He studied law at the University of Vienna and later entered into the civil service. In 1836 he retired to cultivate the manor estate of his uncle at Weikersdorf Castle in Baden, where he excelled in agronomic studies. In the course of the Revolutions of March 1848 he became a liberal member of the Imperial Diet at Kremsier, and trade minister in the cabinet of Franz von Pillersdorf.{{cite book |title=Meyers Konversations-Lexikon: eine Encyclopädie des allgemeinen Wissens |date=1886 |publisher=Bibliographisches Institut |page=17 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0fW9s7zrmkkC&dq=Anton+von+Doblhoff-Dier+%22Handelsminister%22+Pillersdorf&pg=PA17 |access-date=22 October 2024 |language=de}}
Doblhoff-Dier himself resigned from all offices in the violent Vienna Uprising of October 1848. In the next year, he was appointed ambassador at The Hague,{{cite book |last1=Wurzbach |first1=Constant von |title=Biographisches lexikon des kaiserthums oesterreich ... |date=1858 |publisher=Zamarski |page=330 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X7kDAAAAYAAJ&dq=Anton+von+Doblhoff-Dier+%221849%22+Haag&pg=PA330 |access-date=22 October 2024 |language=de}} a post he held until 1858. In 1861 he became a member of the newly established Reichsrat, from 1867 onwards of the Herrenhaus.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081006011139/http://agso.uni-graz.at/marienthal/bibliothek/biografien/07_04_Doblhoff_Dier_Anton_von_Biografie.htm Marienthal] {{in lang|de}}
{{See also|Doblhoff|Dier (disambiguation){{!}}Dier}}
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| title = Minister-President of the Austrian Empire
| before = Baron Franz von Pillersdorf
| after = Johann von Wessenberg-Ampringen
| years = 1848
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| title = Interior Minister of the Austrian Empire
| before = Baron Franz von Pillersdorf
| after = Franz Stadion, Count von Warthausen
| years = 1848
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Category:People from Austrian Littoral
Category:19th-century minister-presidents of Austria
Category:Members of the Imperial Diet (Austria)
Category:Members of the Austrian House of Deputies (1861–1867)