!!!Badeni, Kasimir Felix Graf

b. Surochów (Poland), Oct. 14, 1846, 
d. Krasne (Poland), July 9, 1909, politician. 1888 governor of 
Galicia; as Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs 
(1895-1897) reformed the electoral system in 1896 (introduced an 
electoral body for all citizens over 24 years of age although this 
still only secured 72 of the 425 seats) and issued the B. language 
decree in 1897 according to which Czech became the official second 
language in Bohemia and Moravia (even in the German-speaking regions). 
Administrative procedures were thus to be dealt with in the language 
of the party filing the application. In Vienna, Graz and Bohemia this 
unleashed ethnic clashes in provincial parliaments and on the streets 
and eventually led to B.´s downfall.

!Literature
F. Kornauth, B. als Min.-Praes., doctoral thesis, Vienna 
1949; B. Sutter, Die Badenischen Sprachenverordnungen von 1897, vol. 
1, 1960.



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