Czernin, Ottokar Graf#
b. Dymokury, Czech Republic (then Dimokur), Sept. 26, 1872, d. Vienna, April 4, 1932, statesman, advisor to Archduke Franz Ferdinand; 1916-1918 Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary, substantial contributions to the peace treaties of Bucharest and Brest-Litovsk; he triggered the Sixtus Affair and had to resign. 1920-1923 the only member of the Nationalrat belonging to the "bourgeois labour party" (Buergerliche Arbeiterpartei).
Literature#
L. Singer, O. Gf. C., 1965; OeBL; NDB.