Background
Andrassy von Csik-Szent Kiraly und Krasna-Horka, Count Julius the Younger was bom in Budapest on June 30,1860, the son of the elder Andrässy, Hungarian prime minister and Austro-Hungarian foreign minister.
Andrassy von Csik-Szent Kiraly und Krasna-Horka, Count Julius the Younger was bom in Budapest on June 30,1860, the son of the elder Andrässy, Hungarian prime minister and Austro-Hungarian foreign minister.
The younger Andrässy was elected to the Hungarian parliament in 1885, quickly rising up the ladder to undersecretary of state in 1893 and minister to the court one year later. An inveterate opponent of Count Kalman Tisza, Andrässy spent the years before the outbreak of the Great War as spokesman for liberal dissidents. From 1906 to 1910 he struggled unsuccessfully as minister of the interior to create a Hungarian national army and to reform the existing suffrage.
Julius Andrässy was appointed the last Habsburg foreign minister on October 24, 1918, and it became his bitter task to terminate the German alliance, which his father had forged in 1879. After extending an offer of a separate peace to the Entente on October 28, Andrässy resigned on November 1, 1918. He was then elected to the newly constituted Hungarian National Assembly and in 1921 became leader of the Christian Democratic party. That same year he took part in Emperor Charles I's abortive attempts to regain the Crown of St. Stephen, and subsequently spent seven weeks under custody. Andrässy laid down his parliamentary mandate in 1926; he died in Budapest on June 11,1929.