Anna Kéthly

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Anna Kéthly (born November 16, 1889 in Budapest , † September 7, 1976 in Blankenberge in Belgium ) was a Hungarian social democratic politician .

Life

Kéthly worked from 1917 for the Magántisztviselők Országos Szövetsége ("National Association of Private Employees"), of which she later became vice-president. At the end of 1919 she began to support the Social Democratic Party. Among other things, she was a member of Központi Nőszervező Bizottság ("Central Committee of Women's Organizations") and editor of the magazine Nőmunkás ("Worker"). She also published in the daily newspaper Népszava ("Voice of the People") and in the Szociáldemokrata Füzetek ("Social Democratic Hefts "). In 1920 she officially joined the Magyar Szociáldemokrata Párt ("Social Democratic Party of Hungary", MSZDP ). Her political activity earned her respect and influence in her party. From 1922 to 1948 she was a member of the party executive committee. During this time she also sat in parliament .

During the Second World War she supported the bourgeois opposition and the union of the workers' parties. After 1945 she became the head of the party's right wing. Since the Communist Party's electoral defeat in November 1945, the Hungarian parties have been increasingly infiltrated by the Soviet side, which finally achieved in 1949 the goal of the Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) being the only one to the elections using methods such as the salami tactic or the blue ballot was allowed. When Kéthly opposed the unification of the two workers' parties in March 1948, she was expelled from the party.

Statue on Anna Kéthly Square in Budapest's Erzsébetváros (Elisabethstadt) district

With the takeover of power, the state terror began under the Stalinist Mátyás Rákosi . Anna Kéthly was arrested and sentenced to life in prison . In 1954, however, she was freed through an amnesty . Two years later, during the Hungarian uprising , she worked intensively on the reorganization of the Social Democratic Party. On October 31, 1956, she became their party leader . On November 2, she became Minister of State in the government of Imre Nagy and practically its Vice- Prime Minister . After the suppression of the uprising, she traveled to the Congress of the Second International in Vienna in 1957 and did not return to Hungary until her death.

In exile in Belgium , she headed the Magyar Forradalmi Tanács (“Council of the Hungarian Revolution”). After emigrating , she was editor of Népszava , published in London , for seven years . According to István Bibó , who also held a ministerial office in Imre Nagy's government, she was the only authentic representative of that government abroad.

In October 1990 her ashes were transferred to the Új köztemető in Budapest.

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personal data
SURNAME Kethly, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian politician, Member of Parliament, Minister of Social Democrats
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH 7th September 1976
Place of death Blankenberge , Belgium