!!!Stürgkh, Karl Graf

Stuergkh, Count Karl, b. Graz (Styria), Oct. 30, 1859, 
d. Vienna, Oct. 21, 1916 (assassinated), politician. From 1891 member 
of the Reichsrat, where he joined the group of landowners loyal to the 
Constitution; 1909-1911 Education Minister, 1911-1916 Prime Minister. 
On March 16, 1914 adjourned the Reichsrat, pursued an authoritarian 
style of government, refused to comply with the repeated call for a 
convocation of Parliament and was therefore shot by the Social 
Democrat F.  Adler.

!Literature
A. Fussek, Min.-Praes. K. Gf. S., doctoral thesis, Vienna 
1959.



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