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Mihály Farkas | |
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| Minister of Defence of the Hungarian People's Republic | |
| In office 20 April 1951 – 14 November 1952 | |
| Preceded by | Sándor Zöld |
| Succeeded by | József Györe |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 September 1908 Komádi, Hungary |
| Died | 13 November 1970 (aged 62) Budapest, Hungary |
| Political party | Hungarian Communist Party, Hungarian Worker's Party, MSZMP |
| Profession | politician |
| Awards | Kossuth Prize |
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Mihály Farkas (born Hermann Lőwy; 18 July 1904 – 6 December 1965) was a Hungarian Communist politician who served as Minister of National Defense of the Hungarian People's Republic.
Biography
He was born in 1904 in Abaújszántó to Jewish parents, in the Abaúj-Torna County of the Kingdom of Hungary, and became a Communist in the 1920s. He lived in Košice and Prague then. He fought in the Spanish Civil War; later he moved to the Soviet Union. He returned to Hungary in late 1944 alongside other Hungarian communists and became a member of the Central Committee, the Political Committee and the Secretariat of the Hungarian Communist Party from May 1945. In 1945 he became under-secretary of Home Affairs. In 1946 he was elected deputy secretary and became the chairman of the party's Management Committee.[1]
He was Minister of National Defence from 9 September 1948 to 2 July 1953. He was one of the main instigators during the Rákosi era.[clarification needed] In 1956 he was expelled from the party and convicted. He was released from prison in 1961 and spent his last years working as an editor and publisher in Budapest, where he died in 1965.[1]His son Vladimir was a colonel of the security police during the Rákosi era.[2]
References
- ^ a b "Farkas Mihály | PLM Namespace". PLM Namespace. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ Hollander, Paul (1999). Political Will and Personal Belief: The Decline and Fall of Soviet Communism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. p. 247. ISBN 978-0-300-14420-8.
Sources
- Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon 1000–1990
- 1904 births
- 1965 deaths
- People from Abaújszántó
- People from the Kingdom of Hungary
- Jewish Hungarian politicians
- Jewish socialists
- Hungarian Communist Party politicians
- Members of the Hungarian Working People's Party
- Defence ministers of Hungary
- Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1945–1947)
- Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1947–1949)
- Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1949–1953)
- Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1953–1958)
- People of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- Jewish anti-fascists
- Disease-related deaths in Hungary