Árpád Pullai

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Árpád Pullai (born September 3, 1925 in Kecskemét , Bács-Kiskun County ) is a former Hungarian politician of the party of the Hungarian working people MDP (Magyar Dolgozók Pártja) and finally the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party MSZMP (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt) , who among others between 1961 and in 1964 first secretary of the Communist Youth Association KISZ (Magyar Kommunista Ifjúsági Szövetség) , longtime Central Committee secretary as well as Minister for Post and Transport and most recently Transport Minister.

Life

Party official, first secretary of the KISZ and member of parliament

Pullai, son of a police officer, completed a two-year training course at an agricultural vocational school between 1943 and 1945 and became a member of the Communist Party KMP (Kommunisták Magyarországi Pártja) in 1944 , after having previously been a member of the National Peasant Party (Nemzeti Parasztpárt) for a short time . After a brief activity in the sales and personnel office of an agricultural cooperative in his hometown of Kecskemét, he was secretary of the Hungarian Democratic Youth Association MÁDISZ (Magyar Demokratikus Ifjúsági Szövetség) in Pest County between 1945 and 1946 and then in Vas County . After completing a master class in oil drilling, he worked for a while as a worker in an oil company in Füzesgyarmat .

In February 1947, after attending the party school, Pullai became an employee of the organizational department of the Central Committee (ZK) of the KMP and the party of the Hungarian working people, MDP (Magyar Dolgozók Pártja) , which emerged in 1948 , before he became an employee of the Central Committee department for party and mass organizations in 1950 . In 1952 he moved to the MDP party university as a professor and then took over from 1955 until the end of the popular uprising in November 1957 as secretary of the Union of Young Workers DISZ (Dolgozó Ifjúság Szövetsége) in Debrecen .

Then, in November 1956, Pullai initially took over the position of First Secretary of the MSZMP City Council of Debrecen, but shortly afterwards switched to the position of Secretary of the MSZMP in Hajdú-Bihar County .

After he was editor-in-chief of the newspaper Pártélet between 1957 and 1961 and secretary of the KISZ from 1958, he succeeded Zoltán Komócsin as First Secretary of the Communist Youth Association KISZ (Magyar Kommunista Ifjúsági Szövetség) and held this office until his replacement by Lajos Méhes on January 6, 1964.

On September 12, 1961 he was first a candidate and then on November 24, 1962 at the Eighth Party Congress as a member of the Central Committee of the MSZMP, to which he was elected until the XIII. Party Congress on March 28, 1985.

On March 24, 1963, Pullai was elected member of parliament (Országgyűlés) for the first time , where he initially represented the list of the Patriotic Popular Front HNF (Hazafias Népfront) in Budapest and most recently the 11th constituency between April 25, 1971 and March 6, 1980 of Veszprém county .

Central Committee Secretary and Minister

Promotion to Central Committee secretary

Shortly before the end of his work as first secretary of the KISZ, Pullai became head of the Central Committee department for party and mass organizations on December 5, 1963 and remained in this position until December 3, 1966. From December 3, 1966 to October 26, 1976, he then worked for almost ten years as the Central Committee secretary for party organs and mass organizations. At the same time he was a member of the Central Committee for Propaganda and Agitation between 1966 and 1970 and then in 1970 became a member of the Central Committee for Youth and Party Work, to which he belonged until 1975. As the Central Committee secretary, he also dealt with the position of women in the People's Republic of Hungary.

In April 1973 he took over the position of Zoltán Komócsin, who was ill, initially on a provisional basis and, after his death on May 29, 1974, officially as the Central Committee Secretary for International Relations. Along with the Central Committee Secretary for Administration and Organization, Béla Biszku , Pullai was one of the opponents of the liberal economic course of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the MSZMP, János Kádár , and of the group of politicians who had tried to remove the party leader in 1975. For a long time he had been in opposition to the pragmatic and technologically oriented economic course around Kádár.

In a speech in the autumn of 1975 he underlined his support for a strong position by the party to control the economic leadership.

Disempowerment as Central Committee secretary and post and transport minister

On October 28, 1976, Pullai was released from his position as Central Committee Secretary for International Relations, which was the most significant political change in a top body of the party. Although Pullai was not a member of the Central Committee's Politburo, he was considered the most influential ideological hardliner and politically conservative within the MZSMP leadership. Already on the XI. At the party congress on March 22, 1975, his rise to date had stalled: Despite the general expectation, he was not elected to the Politburo, but nevertheless retained the important function of Central Committee secretary for party organs and mass organizations and thus remained influential in the party's leadership circle.

At the same time, in October 1976, the position of Sándor Borbély was strengthened, who had only been head of the Central Committee's Department for Industry, Agriculture and Transport since 1975 and was now Central Committee Secretary. The disempowerment of Pullai was preceded by a trip by Central Committee Secretary Károly Németh , Borbély and Imre Pardi, who was also head of a Central Committee department, to talks with the CPSU in Moscow . This made it clear that the group around Kádár had prevailed, who no longer had an opponent in the top management bodies of the party, but also no possible successor of any political weight. While Pullai, Biszku, Imre Pardi and Komócsin, who died in 1974, were among the reform opponents, Rezső Nyers , Jenő Fock and Lajos Fehér were considered the most influential proponents of reforms, although Nyers and Fehér at the XI. Party congress on March 22, 1975 had lost their membership in the Politburo of the Central Committee.

Instead, he took over as the successor to Károly Rödönyi, the rather subordinate office of the Minister for Post and Transport (Közlekedési és Postaügyi miniszter) in the cabinet of Prime Minister György Lázár .

After a reorganization of the area of ​​responsibility, he held the post of Minister of Transport (Közlekedési Miniszter) from June 30, 1983 until his dismissal on June 27, 1984 .

Publications

  • The political, economic and social situation of women , meeting of the Central Committee of the USAP from 18. – 19. February 1970
  • A Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt ifjúságpolitikájának néhány kérdéséről , 1971.
  • Gazdaságpolitikai eredmények, célkitűzések a nemzetközi áruszállítás tükrében , 1982.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KISZ-történelem: akik Kádárt és Gyurcsányt is fúrták (History of the KISZ (Hungarian)).
  2. ↑ Shana Penn, Jill Massino (editor): Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe , 2009, p. 61, ISBN 0-23010-157-7 .
  3. ↑ Heidi Tinsman: Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973 , 2002, p 237, ISBN 0-82232-922-0 .
  4. ↑ ARPAD PULLAI DROPPED FROM HSWP CENTRAL COMMITTEE SECRETARIAT - item 4 (October 28, 1976).
  5. ^ Iván T. Berend : The Hungarian Economic Reforms, 1953-1988 , 1990, pp. 208, 211, 234, ISBN 0-52138-037-5 .
  6. ^ Roger Gough: A Good Comrade: Janos Kadar, Communism and Hungary , 2006, p. 204, ISBN 0-85771-298-5 .
  7. ↑ Teresa Rakowska Harm-Stone (editor): Communism in Eastern Europe , 1984, pp 99, ISBN 0-71901-705-X .
  8. ↑ ARPAD PULLAI DROPPED FROM HSWP CENTRAL COMMITTEE SECRETARIAT - Item 3 (October 28, 1976).
  9. ↑ ARPAD PULLAI DROPPED FROM HSWP CENTRAL COMMITTEE SECRETARIAT - Points 2, 3 and 5 (October 28, 1976).
  10. ↑ Adam Burakowski: dictatura lui Ceausescu (1965-1989) , 2012, p 195, ISBN 9-73462-578-0 .
  11. ↑ Photography as Post Minister (Postamúzeum).
personal data
SURNAME Pullai, Árpád
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian communist politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Kecskemét , Bács-Kiskun county