András Hegedüs

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András Hegedüs, 1956
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András Hegedüs [ ˈɒndraːʃ ˈhɛɡɛdyːʃ ] (born October 31, 1922 in Szilsárkány ; † October 23, 1999 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian politician during the communist era and Prime Minister from April 1955 until the Hungarian uprising in autumn 1956 .

After graduating from high school in Sopron , Hegedüs studied electrical engineering at the Technical and Economic University of Budapest . During the Second World War he became a member of the illegal "Peace Party", the "League of Communist Youth" and the "Magyar Kommunista Párt" founded in 1944 - the later Hungarian Communist Party .

In the first government under Imre Nagy , he was Minister of Agriculture and First Deputy President of the Council of Ministers in 1953 .

After an internal party power struggle sparked Hegedus, a follower of the Stalinist Matyas Rakosi , who had operated the "Sovietization" of Hungary since 1945, and even after his resignation as Prime Minister KP - party leader had remained Nagy as prime minister from; he reversed its reforms ("restalinization"), which subsequently led to the popular uprising. Hegedüs signed the Warsaw Pact for Hungary . On October 24, 1956, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister, and on October 28, 1956, he requested the help of the Soviet Union to put down the uprising. On October 29, he fled to the USSR.

After Imre Nagy was executed in June 1958, Hegedüs returned to Hungary in September 1958 from exile in Moscow , where he had studied sociology . In 1962 he became an economist at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and President of the Central Statistical Office. In 1968 he turned against the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops in Czechoslovakia . In 1973 he was charged with "revisionism" - the withdrawal of Nagy's reforms - and expelled from the Communist Party. Since 1975 he has given international lectures on Eastern Europe .

For the political circumstances between 1950 and 1957 see Hungarian People's Uprising and Ernő Gerő

Works

  • In the shadow of an idea. A survey by Zoltán Zsille about a Stalinist coming to terms with the past . Zurich 1986 ISBN 3-250-10042-0

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SURNAME Hegedüs, András
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian politician and prime minister
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Szilsárkány
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1999
Place of death Budapest