GOLUCHOWSKI, AGENOR (MARIA ADAM), COUNT

(Graf) born March 25, 1849, Skala, Austrian Galicia [now Skalat, Ukraine] died March 28, 1921, Lww, Pol. [now Lviv, Ukraine] foreign minister of Austria (1895-1906) who negotiated the Austro-Russian agreement of 1897, which became the basis for a decade-long dtente between the two powers. Goluchowski, the son of the governor of Galicia, Count Agenor Goluchowski, was a longtime member of the Austrian diplomatic service. He significantly eased European tensions with his Austro-Russian agreement of 1897 and with the Austro-Russian Mrzsteg Pact of 1903 concerning a joint policy toward Turkey. Goluchowski nevertheless remained loyal to Austria's principal ally, Germany. During the first Moroccan crisis (1905) between France and Germany, his role as mediator earned him the praise of the German emperor William II. Goluchowski, a Pole, fell when the Hungarians suspected him of opposing the use of Hungarian as a command language in the Austro-Hungarian army. At the same time the heir presumptive Archduke Francis Ferdinand blamed him for being too subservient to Hungarian demands.