1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Kielmansegg, Erich, Count

7576031922 Encyclopædia Britannica — Kielmansegg, Erich, Count

KIELMANSEGG, ERICH, Count (1847-       ), Austrian statesman, was born at Hanover on Feb. 13 1847, and emigrated in 1866, after the incorporation of Hanover in Prussia, to Austria, where he entered the service of the State in 1870. He became governor of Lower Austria (1880-95), carried through the union of Vienna with the suburbs (Greater Vienna), was Minister of the Interior (1895), Prime Minister (June 19-Sept. 29 1895), then again governor until 1911. He was, with the exception of the Chancellor Beust, the only Protestant minister of Austria.