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Conservatism and Christian democracy

36 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev Константин Петрович Победоносцев The 'Grand Inquisitor' who made autocracy a creed Ideology and propaganda · Russian Empire 1827–1907
Albert Apponyi Apponyi Albert Aristocratic statesman who led Hungary’s delegation to the Paris peace talks in 1920 and pleaded for revising Trianon at the League Diplomacy and international organization · Hungary 1846–1933
Alfred von Tirpitz Alfred von Tirpitz German admiral who built the High Seas Fleet to rival the Royal Navy, set off a naval arms race and urged unrestricted U-boat war Military command · Germany state institutions 1849–1930
Mikhail Vladimirovich Rodzianko Михаил Владимирович Родзянко The parliamentarian the Tsar called 'fat-bellied': last chairman of the Imperial Duma Political and party leadership · Union of 17 October (Octobrists) 1859–1924
George Curzon George Nathaniel Curzon Conservative viceroy of India and foreign secretary who gave his name to the Curzon Line and led the Allies at Lausanne Diplomacy and international organization · United Kingdom state institutions 1859–1925
István Tisza Tisza István Defender of the Dual Monarchy who was Hungary’s wartime prime minister and was killed by soldiers on the day of the Aster Revolution Political and party leadership · Hungary 1861–1918
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud Pehr Evind Svinhufvud Head of the Finnish Senate who declared independence and sought German intervention in the civil war Government and administration · Finland state institutions 1861–1944
Neville Chamberlain Neville Chamberlain The appeasement architect whose bid to avoid war helped open the way to it Political and party leadership · Conservative Party (United Kingdom) 1869–1940
Juho Kusti Paasikivi Juho Kusti Paasikivi Finnish realist who faced Stalin at the 1939 Moscow negotiations and later forged the Paasikivi doctrine of Cold War neutrality Diplomacy and international organization · Finland state institutions 1870–1956
Gyula Károlyi Károlyi Gyula Conservative aristocrat who set up the counter-revolutionary government in Szeged in 1919 and was prime minister of Hungary in 1931–1932 Political and party leadership · Hungary 1871–1947
István Bethlen Bethlen István Transylvanian aristocrat who, as prime minister in 1921–1931, consolidated the Horthy regime with a restricted franchise and a League loan Government and administration · Hungary 1874–1946
Herbert C. Hoover Herbert Hoover Master of famine relief and the 31st president, broken by the Great Depression Government and administration · United States state institutions 1874–1964
Konrad Adenauer Konrad Adenauer The chancellor who made provisional statehood durable Government and administration · Germany state institutions 1876–1967
Andreas Hermes Andreas Hermes Weimar finance minister who founded the CDU in the Soviet zone in 1945 and was deposed for opposing the land reform Government and administration · Germany state institutions 1878–1964
Pál Teleki Teleki Pál Geographer of the “Red map” who was twice prime minister and killed himself in 1941 as German troops crossed Hungary Government and administration · Hungary 1879–1941
Ferenc Keresztes-Fischer Keresztes-Fischer Ferenc Conservative ally of Bethlen who as interior minister twice used the police to hold down radical movements of left and right Government and administration · Hungary 1881–1948
James F. Francis Byrnes James F. Byrnes Roosevelt's "assistant president" who, as Secretary of State, designed the Potsdam reparations compromise Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1882–1972
Otto Nuschke Otto Nuschke Kaiser’s successor at the head of the East German CDU, who brought it into line with the SED as deputy prime minister Government and administration · East Germany 1883–1957
Miklós Kállay Kállay Miklós Wartime prime minister who refused German deportation demands and sought a secret armistice with the Western Allies Government and administration · Hungary 1887–1967
Jakob Kaiser Jakob Kaiser Christian Democrat who led the CDU in the Soviet zone until SMAD removed him, then became West Germany’s minister for all-German affairs Government and administration · Germany state institutions 1888–1961
Géza Lakatos Lakatos Géza General who as prime minister in August–October 1944 halted the Jewish deportations and prepared an armistice until the Arrow Cross coup Government and administration · Hungary 1890–1967
Engelbert Dollfuss Engelbert Dollfuß Austrian chancellor who shut down parliament, built the Fatherland Front dictatorship and was assassinated in a Nazi coup in 1934 Government and administration · Austria state institutions 1892–1934
József Mindszenty Mindszenty József Archbishop of Esztergom and cardinal sentenced to life in a 1949 show trial, who sheltered in the US embassy in Budapest from 1956 Religion 1892–1975
Anthony Eden Anthony Eden A British diplomat of war and decolonisation Political and party leadership · United Kingdom state institutions 1897–1977
Ludwig Erhard Ludwig Erhard The West German economic statesman who shaped currency reform and the social market economy Economy, finance and planning · Germany state institutions 1897–1977
Georges Bidault Georges Bidault From Resistance chief to architect of the Marshall Plan response, the foreign minister who told Molotov that Soviet actions divided Europe Government and administration · France state institutions 1899–1983
Gerald Ford Gerald Ford The unelected president who steered détente into its final phase Government and administration · United States state institutions 1913–2006
Christopher Montague Woodhouse Christopher Montague Woodhouse A Greece expert at the boundary of resistance and empire Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1917–2001
George Pratt Shultz George Shultz The Secretary of State who pushed Reagan toward dialogue with Gorbachev and helped end the Cold War Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1920–2021
George H. W. Herbert Walker Bush George H. W. Bush The US president who declared the Cold War over with Gorbachev at Malta, yet whose caution nearly let history slip away Government and administration · United States state institutions 1924–2018
Helmut Josef Michael Kohl Helmut Kohl The chancellor who seized the initiative on the German question with a ten-point unification plan days before Malta Political and party leadership · Christian Democratic Union (CDU) 1930–2017
Alois Mock Alois Mock An Austrian Europeanist who helped open the Iron Curtain Diplomacy and international organization · Austria state institutions 1934–2017
Ronald Radosh Ronald Radosh A historian whose break with communism led to conservative anti-communism Scholarship and theory 1937–
Albertas Šimėnas Albertas Šimėnas Economist-statesman of restored independence, Lithuania's shortest-serving premier Government and administration · Lithuania state institutions 1950–
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Владимир Владимирович Путин A ruler who recast the loss of the Soviet Union as a narrative of state restoration Government and administration · Russian Federation state institutions 1952–
Viktor Mihály Orbán Orbán Viktor From anti-communist youth leader in 1989 to architect of 'illiberal democracy' Government and administration · Hungary 1963–