Antal Dovcsák

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Hungarian Council Government 1919.
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Antal Dovcsák (born March 11, 1879 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † 1962 in Vienna ) was a trade union leader, socialist Hungarian politician and in 1919 a member of the government of the Hungarian Soviet Republic.

Before the First World War, Dovcsák was the union leader of the steel workers and politician of the Hungarian Social Democratic Party (MSZDP).

When the first republican government of Hungary under Mihály Károlyi resigned after the end of the First World War , Dovcsák became the Deputy Council for Public Welfare on March 21, 1919 in the Revolutionary Council of the Hungarian Socialist Council Republic , which in fact was under the leadership of the People's Commissar of the Outer Béla Kun , Appointed to the Council for Public Welfare on April 5 and Deputy Prime Minister Sándor Garbai on June 24 . At the end of July the council government gave up and gave up the fight against the Hungarian counterrevolutionaries and the Allied invaders. Dovcsák became Minister of Commerce in the social democratic trade union government Gyula Peidl established on August 1, 1919 , which reversed a large part of the previous nationalization decisions. On August 6, the government was overthrown in Budapest under pressure from Romanian troops. Dovcsák was arrested and imprisoned.

In 1922 he was deported to the Soviet Union by the Horthy regime as part of a prisoner exchange in a group of politicians . Dovcsák then went to Austria in 1923, where he worked as a trade union official in the iron and metalworking industry.

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SURNAME Dovcsák, Antal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian socialist politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH 1962
Place of death Vienna