Ernst von Plener

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Ernst Baron von Plener (18 October 1841, Eger, Bohemia – 29 April 1923, Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian statesman, son of Ignaz von Plener.

He was educated at Vienna and Berlin. He served in the Diplomatic Corps (1865-73 and then entered the Imperial Diet, where he joined the Left and supported Andrassy's policy in the Balkans (1878). He succeeded Herbst as head of the German Liberals, both in Prague and in Vienna, and in 1888 was chosen leader of the party called United German Left. From 1893 to 1895, while Minister of Finance in Taaffe's cabinet, Plener reorganized the Austrian and Hungarian mint. In 1900, after five years at the head of the Court of Accounts, he entered the House of Lords. He became a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague. Plener wrote on English economic conditions, on Ferdinand Lassalle (1884), and on the Bohemian school and language questions (1886).

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