Alexander von Bach | |
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 Portrait of Alexander von Bach (c. 1849) by Josef Kriehuber. | |
| Interior Minister of the Austrian Empire | |
| In office 28 July 1849 – 22 August 1859 | |
| Monarch | Francis Joseph I |
| Prime Minister | Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg (1849–1852) Count Karl Ferdinand von Buol (1852–1859) |
| Preceded by | Franz Stadion, Count von Warthausen |
| Succeeded by | Count Agenor Gołuchowski |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 January 1813 Loosdorf, Austria |
| Died | 12 November 1893 (aged 80) Schöngrabern, Austria |
Baron Alexander von Bach (German: Alexander Freiherr[1] von Bach; 4 January 1813, Loosdorf, Austria – 12 November 1893, Schöngrabern, Austria) was an Austrian politician. His most notable achievement was instituting a system of centralized control at the beginning of the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.
- ^ Regarding personal names: Freiherr was a title before 1919, but now is regarded as part of the surname. It is translated as Baron. Before the August 1919 abolition of nobility as a legal class, titles preceded the full name when given (Graf Helmuth James von Moltke). Since 1919, these titles, along with any nobiliary prefix (von, zu, etc.), can be used, but are regarded as a dependent part of the surname, and thus come after any given names (Helmuth James Graf von Moltke). Titles and all dependent parts of surnames are ignored in alphabetical sorting. The feminine forms are Freifrau and Freiin.