Count Richard Belcredi
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Hochgeboren Richard Graf von Belcredi |
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Count Richard Belcredi
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| 5th Chairman of the Ministers' Conference of the Austrian Empire | |
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In office 27 July 1865 – 7 February 1867 |
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| Monarch | Franz Joseph I |
| Preceded by | Alexander Graf von Mensdorff-Pouilly |
| Succeeded by | Friedrich Ferdinand Graf von Beust |
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12 February 1823 Jimramov, Moravia Austrian Empire |
| Died | 2 December 1902 (aged 79) Gmunden, Upper Austria Austria-Hungary |
Count Richard von Belcredi (German: Richard Graf Belcredi; 12 February 1823 – 2 December 1902) was an Austrian civil servant and statesman, who served as Minister-President (and 'Minister of State') of the Austrian Empire from 1865 to 1867. During 1881–1895, Belcredi was President of the Cisleithanian Administrative Court.
Richard Graf von Belcredi was born on 12 February 1823, in Jimramov (Ingrowitz), in the Margraviate of Moravia, the youngest son of Count Eduard von Belcredi (1786–1838) and his wife Countess Maria von Fünfkirchen (1790–1860). The Belcredi noble family originally descended from Lombardy, where they had been vested with the estates of Montalto Pavese by the Sforza dukes of Milan. Count Richard's ancestors settled in Moravia from 1769 onwards.
He studied law at the universities of Prague and Vienna; in 1854, he was appointed district captain (Bezirkshauptmann) in Znojmo (Znaim). In 1861, he was elected member of the Landtag diet of Austrian Silesia and MP of the Imperial Council. He became head of the Austrian Silesian regional government one year later. In 1864, he was promoted to the official rank of Geheimrat (Secret Councillor) and appointed Imperial-Royal governor of Bohemia in Prague.
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