Hungarian Prime Minister and landowner (1863–1933)
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János Hadik was born on 23 November 1863 in Pálócz, Ung County to Count Béla Hadik Mátyás Antal (1822–1885) and Countess Barkóczy Ilona (1833–1887) as their second child, the first being Endre Hadik-Barkóczy and the third Miksa Hadik. He was a great-grandson of András Hadik de Futak.
In 1894, Hadik was elected to the upper chamber of the Diet of Hungary, the House of Magnates, and he acted in the direction of separating the church and the state affairs from each other.[2]
Hadik, who joined the Liberal Party in 1901, took his place in Diet as the representative of this party. In the second government of Sándor Wekerle during 1906 to 1910, founded by the coalition government as a state representative, Hadik was Secretary of State in the Interior Ministry and was a senior advisor to the Minister of the Interior, Count Gyula Andrássy.[2] Hadik was the closest working companion to Gyula Andrássy.[3]
Hadik played an important part in drawing up a bill proposing universal male suffrage that, however, was defeated. Having withdrawn from politics for a while after the end of this post, Hadik was appointed Minister of State in August 1917, in a process that continued during the World War I. He served as minister without portfolio, with responsibility for food production and distribution, in the third Wekerle government.
Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary
After the resignation of the Sándor Wekerle Cabinet on 23 October 1918, which had opposed reforms proposed by Austrian politicians to try to save the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Joseph, representing Emperor Karl in Hungary, appointed Hadik as prime minister instead of Mihály Károlyi, contrary to expectations, under the influence of Andrássy.[4] After the announcement of the new Prime Minister, Hadik, who had to leave Prime Minister's office due to the conflicts in Budapest[5] and the influence of the Aster Revolution since October 28, fled abroad.[6] Following these events, the Austrian Archduke Joseph August, with the powers of the king, announced that he had appointed Károlyi as prime minister on October 31, 1918.
Hadik returned to Hungary later, working in the fields of economy and politics.
Personal life
On 2 October 1893 in Seregélyes he married Alexandra Zichy de Zics et Vásonkeői (1873–1949), from whom four children were born:
Amalia Andrea Johanna Alexandra (1894–1967), who married Prince Louis von Hohenlohe-Langenburg.
Margaret Johanna Maria Gabriella Rafaella Eva Alexandra (1899–1978), who married Wengersky Viktor von Count, Baron of Ungerschütz
^Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 Volume 2. Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna. 1959. pp. 133f.
^Lendvai, Paul (2003). The Hungarians. A thousand years of victory in defeat. London: Hurst Publishing House. p. 364.
^Sándor Kurtán, Karin Liebhart, Andreas Pribersky (1999). Ungarn. Munich: Beck. pp. 71f.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Spencer Tucker, Laura Matysek Wood, Justin D. Murphy (1999). The European powers in the First World War. An encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publ. pp. 329f.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
