Alois Paikert

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Seprősi jr. Paikert Alois

Seprősi jr. Alois Paikert (born May 31, 1866 in Trnava , † July 30, 1948 in Budapest ) was an agronomist , lawyer and museum director .

Life

Youth and education

As the son of the military doctor Alois Paikert sen. (1831-1914) and Walburga Walter Edle von Waltenau (1839-1903), he passed his Abitur at the Catholic main high school in Bratislava / Pressburg and then studied at the Agricultural Business Academy in Magyarovar. During his vacation he took part in archaeological excavations in Moson, led by Ágoston Sőtér. He completed his studies as an agronomist in 1887, and then studied law at the University of Science in Budapest . In the second year of his studies he became an assistant professor in the department of anthropology under the direction of Aurél Török. He received his title of nobility "Seprősi" in 1909 thanks to his father, the military chief doctor Alois Paikert.

Agricultural career

In October 1891 he was offered the assistant secretary position at the Hungarian Business Association (OMGE). Until 1896 he participated in the reorganization of the association, the establishment of the magazine Köztelek (community land) (1891), the establishment of the farmers' cooperative (1891) and the home newspaper (1893). He also took part in agricultural congresses, organized exhibitions and took part in the cooperative movement. In 1892 he passed the state examination and in 1893 he was promoted to union secretary.

During the 1893 World Expo in Chicago , he led the OMGE experts' study tour of North America for a year and a half . He was "the reporter of the education and literature department, the permanent organizer of business lectures, the reporter of the specialist department for horse breeding , organizer of luxury horse fairs, dressage and show jumping". In 1894 he was one of the founders of the "Review of Hungarian Economic History", until 1897 alongside Károly Tagányi editor of the paper and until 1899 its co-editor. In 1895 he took part in a long trip through France , England, Scotland , Ireland and Germany. At the end of 1895 and beginning of 1896 he was commissioned by the Agriculture Minister Ignaz Darányi to prepare the international agriculture congress in Budapest and at the same time to become its secretary . On December 19, 1896, he resigned as OMGE State Secretary and was then elected Honorary Secretary.

At the Ministry of Agriculture and the Royal Agricultural Museum

Due to the popular agricultural themes in the 1896 Millennium Exhibition , Alajos Paikert jun. the organization and construction of the agricultural museum in Budapest in the city park Vajdahunyad , initially in temporary buildings. In 1987 he was commissioned by Ignác Darányi to become its first museum manager ( museologist ). From 1900 to 1903 he lived in Washington as the "Royal Hungarian Agricultural Commissioner". He reported from the USA and Canada and established economic and diplomatic relations between these countries and Hungary. He initiated the agreement between the American and Hungarian governments for the mutual telegraphic exchange of crop estimates in agriculture. After his return in 1903 he was one of the main organizers in setting up the museum, which was built according to the plans of Ignác Alpár . On June 9, 1907, Emperor and King of Hungary Franz Joseph II inaugurated the new museum .

On July 25, 1916, he was assigned to the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Inland Industry. He was later promoted to the Experimental Directorate and then appointed to the Council of Ministers. He developed and reformed the Ministry of Homeland Security.

Director of the Royal Agricultural Museum and founder of the museum

Portrait of Alois Paikert, painted by Dr. Szokol Willibald
Váci utca 38. Országos Tiszti Kaszinó. A felvétel 1934. március 19-én készält Percy Thomas Etherton ezredes előadása alkalmával, melyet a Mount Everest átrepüléséről tartott. Balról 1. Boér Elek Fortepan 20729

In November 1923 he was appointed director of the Agriculture Museum. In 1925 he began to organize the Friends of the Agricultural Museum, of which he became the first president . In 1929 he was commissioned by the ministry to set up the Hungarian agricultural hall for the world exhibition in Barcelona. In the same year the Egyptian king Fu'ad I asked him to build the Agricultural Museum in Cairo. To meet in 1930 to complete this task, he resigned as director of the Agricultural Museum in Budapest in retirement . On this occasion he received the title of "State Secretary". After returning from Cairo in 1936, he developed the design for the “World Alliance”. After several negotiations, the Hungarian Foreign Policy Society accepted the proposal and published it in print. The draft received the most important principles of the " Charter of the United Nations ", which more than 50 states signed on June 26, 1945 in San Francisco . From 1940 he lived in seclusion, six months in Balatonszemes (Somogy Region) and six months on Sonnenstrasse 4 (Napos út 4.sz) in Budapest, where he wrote his memoirs and poems. At the beginning of the 20th century, the painter Dr. Szokol Willibald his portrait at the age of the director (today the painting can be viewed in the lounge of the Museum of Agriculture).

Death and grave

Alois Paikert was buried on August 2, 1948 in the Farkasréti cemetery, in the place of honor designated by the mayor of Budapest. The grave, as well as the graves of his parents and wife, were kept in the communist era.

Journalistic and club activity

In 1908 the Hungarian Business Association elected him General Secretary . He started the permanent column “Overview abroad” in the newspaper Köztelek (Community Country) and was its continuous columnist. In the summer of 1908 he took part in a study trip to England led by OMGE chairman László Esterházy. When received at the Royal Agricultural Society of England , he greeted the English farmers on behalf of the OMGE and the Hungarian farmers. In 1910 he founded the Turan Society (Hungary Asiatic Society), chaired by Count Pál Teleki , Count Béla Széchenyi and Ármin Vámbéry . From 1913 he was the initiator and editor of the bi-monthly newspaper "Turánt", initiated (1917) and organized (1920) the Hungarian Society for Foreign Affairs, which Count Albert Apponyi took over as chairman . By temporarily relocating the Minister of Agriculture, Paikert, as deputy managing director, carried out all the tasks necessary for the company's function and, from November 1921, also as a Council of Ministers. At international congresses he represented his country as a member of the Hungarian delegation.

family

With his wife Osgyáni Rónay Deli he had three children: Alois, Charles Geza and Eva. Son Alois was a legation counselor in the Foreign Ministry in Budapest. He emigrated to the United States, where he worked in the Treasury Department in New York City from 1941 to 1971 . After his retirement he moved to Lausanne (Switzerland), where he died unmarried in 1976. His second son, Charles Géza Paikert (1902–1990), left Hungary in 1924 when he accompanied the Habsburg family into exile in Spain. Later he also traveled to the USA, where he worked as a lawyer, historian , VKM consultant, cultural diplomat, 1947-1975 professor at Syracuse (USA) Le Moyne College and at Le Moyne University. Daughter Eva (married to the hussar colonel Joseph von Auerhammer) was the only one who stayed in Budapest until her death (1984).

Works

  • Paikert Alajos, Jr. Great Britain, The Interests of Rural Agriculture. In English Republic Pictures. Report a study tour to OMGE members 1908-4 July 14th June. Ed. Szilassy Zoltán, Bp, 1909: pp. 129-141.
  • Paikert Alajos: International Organization of Agricultural Interests. Klny. the Foreign Slam, 1921–1922. Vol., Bp. 1922

swell

  • Paikert Alajos: My Life and Time, A Treatise in the Museum's Database. (Publish Takáts Rózsa.) In: Hungarian Agricultural Museum Publications from 1998-2000. Ed. Oroszi Sándor, Bp, 2001, 159 ff.
  • Biographical Index Petofi Literature Museum
  • The lexicon of Hungarian society. Bp., The Hungarian Society Encyclopedia Publishing Company 1930.
  • New Hungarian literary lexicon. Főszerk. Péter László. Bp., Academic Press, 1994.
  • New Hungarian biographical dictionary. Főszerk. Markó László. Bp., The Hungarian Book Club.
  • Hungarian Biographical Lexicon I-II. Főszerk. Kenyeres Ágnes. Bp., Academic Press, 1967-1969.
  • The story of the three decades of life, drawings. Ed. Elemer Gellert and Imre Madarász. Bp., European Literature and Printing Plc., 1932.
  • Révai New Encyclopedia. Főszerk. Tarsoly István colleagues. Szekszárd, Babits 1996.
  • Szinnyei József: The life and work of the Hungarian writer. Bp. 1891-1914. Hornyánszky Viktor, 1905
  • Hungarian museum arcképcsarnok. Főszerk. Bodó Sándor, Viga Gyula. Bp. Pulszky Tarsoly Publishing Company, 2002.
  • Who is who? Modern encyclopedia. Bp., Beta Literature Rt., 1937.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grosses Revai Lexikon 1911-1935, pp. 86-87 , accessed January 2, 2019.
  2. ↑ Szinnyei József: The Life and Work of the Hungarian Writers (1891-1914) , accessed January 1, 2019.
  3. ↑ Kenyeres Ágnes: Hungarian Biographical Lexicon I-II, 1967-1969 , accessed January 2, 2019.
  4. ↑ Paikert Alajos: My life and my time, Hungarian Agricultural Museum, publications by Oroszi Sándor, 1998-2000, p. 159 ff , accessed January 2, 2019.
  5. ↑ Entry in the index.hu forum. January 19, 2013. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
  6. ↑ Geza Charles Paikert: The Danube Swabians. German Populations in Hungary, Rumania and Yugoslavia, and Hitler's impact on their Patterns. Springer, 1967, ISBN 978-94-011-9717-5 ( Online PDF ).
  7. ↑ Glenn Fowler: Geza C. Paikert, 88, professor; Helped Hungarian's After Revolt. The New York Times . December 28, 1990. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  8. ^ Biographical Index, Petöfi Literary Museum , accessed January 1, 2019.
  9. ↑ George Ginsburgs: The German Exodus: A Selective Study on the Post-World War II Expulsion of German Populations and Its Effects. By Paikert Geza Charles. (Publications of the Research Group for European Migration Problems, XII. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1962. pp. X, 97. Index. Gld. 8.50.) , Excerpt from The German Exodus . Cambridge University Press . March 28, 2017. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Paikert, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Agronomist, lawyer and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Trnava
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1948
Place of death Budapest