Koerber, Ernest von
Koerber, Ernest von
(fən kör`bər), 1850–1919, Austro-Hungarian prime minister. A career civil servant, he became prime minister (1900–1904) and made a vigorous but vain attempt to reconcile the national factions of the monarchy by liberal, parliamentary methods. His second tenure, after the assassination (1916) of Count StürgkhStürgkh, Karl, Graf von, 1859–1916, prime minister of Austria (1911–16). During World War I he governed without the unruly parliament and was strongly opposed by liberals and radicals. He was assassinated by Friedrich Adler, an Austrian socialist.
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