Politician, from 1904 member of the House of Lords. In 1919 he was one of the leaders of the Anti-bolshevist Comité in Vienna. He was appointed Commissioner-General of Transdanubia, owing in particular to the fact that after the Trianon Treaty a referendum was held in Sopron and in the neighboring villages to decide their affiliation. He joined Charles IV in the second royal coup, in October 1921. Between 1920 and 1939 he was a member of the National Assembly. On December 14, 1943 he stood up for Hungary leaving the war. He modernized his estate in Vas County (in Ivánc) and bred English thoroughbred derby horses. From 1925 to 1941 he was the president of the Hungarian Boxing Association.