Count Kasimir Felix Badeni
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Hochgeboren Kasimir Felix Graf Badeni |
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| 13th Minister-President of Cisleithania | |
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In office 30 September 1895 – 28 November 1897 |
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| Monarch | Franz Joseph I |
| Preceded by | Erich Graf von Kielmansegg |
| Succeeded by | Paul Gautsch Freiherr von Frankenthurn |
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14 October 1846 Surochów, Galicia, Austrian Empire |
| Died | 9 July 1909 (aged 62) Krasne, Galicia, Austria-Hungary |
| Religion | Catholic |
Count Kasimir Felix Badeni (German: Kasimir Felix Graf von Badeni, Polish: Kazimierz Feliks hrabia Badeni; 14 October 1846 – 9 July 1909), a member of the Polish noble House of Badeni, was an Austrian statesman, who served as Minister-President of Cisleithania from 1895 until 1897. Many people in Austria, especially Emperor Franz Joseph, had placed great hope in Badeni's efforts to reform the electoral system and the language legislation in order to solve some fundamental problems of the multinational state, which eventually failed.
He was born in Surochów near Jarosław (Jaroslau) in the Austrian Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, the son of Count Ladislaus (Władysław) Badeni (1819–1888) and his wife Cecylia. Badeni studied law at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and joined the Austrian civil service in 1866, serving in the Ministry of the Interior and in the Ministry of Agriculture. In 1871 he was appointed district commissioner (Bezirkshauptmann) in Żółkiew, later in Rzeszów. From 1879 he worked as court councillor and delegate of the Galician stadtholder in Kraków.
Badeni retired to his country estates in 1866, nevertheless two years later he was appointed k.k. stadtholder of Galicia by Emperor Franz Joseph. During his tenure, he played a key role in the rapprochement between the Polish elite and the Ruthenians that came to be known as the "New Era". He was devoted to the Habsburg Monarchy and the Emperor as a firm conservative, which combined with his successes in Galicia impressed Franz Joseph.
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