Béla Imrédy

Imrédy as a defendant in 1945

Béla Imrédy von Ómoravicza [ beːlɒ ˈimreːdi ] (born December 29, 1891 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; died February 28, 1946 in Budapest) was Hungarian Prime Minister from 1938 to 1939 and Minister of Economic Affairs in the government of Döme Sztójay in 1944 .

Life

After studying law, Imrédy began his career in the Ministry of Finance. In 1928 he became director of the Hungarian National Bank and took part in several international financial conferences. Under Gyula Gömbös he served as Minister of Finance. After his death (October 6, 1936) he resigned and became President of the National Bank.

On May 14, 1938, he became Prime Minister. After several unsuccessful attempts to get support from the Western Allies, he moved closer to German politics. He introduced anti-Jewish legislation based on the Nuremberg Laws . He resigned on October 16, 1939 when the opposition had found him to have a Jewish great-grandmother in his own ancestral list. However, he retained leadership in various right-wing organizations, and as Minister of Economics in 1944 he made the Hungarian economy subservient to the German war economy . In 1945 he was the “guest of the Reich Government” in Salzburg . According to the Moscow Declaration, the Americans extradited him to Hungary. In Budapest he was sentenced to death by the Hungarian People's Court for war crimes and executed . According to the Hungarian conservative politician and contemporary witness István Bethlen , “no other politician in Hungarian parliamentary history has caused as much disaster as Imrédy”.

With Irén Nelky (1892-1980) he had a son János (1928-2000).

literature

Paul Lendvai : The Hungarians. A thousand years of history. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-442-15122-6
Franz Sz. Horváth: Imrédy, Béla , in: Handbuch des Antisemitismus , Volume 2/1, 2009, p. 392f.

Web links

Commons : Béla Imrédy - collection of images, videos and audio files

Newspaper article about Béla Imrédy in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

↑ Népbíróságok Országos Tanácsa (NOT) see Hungarian Wikipedia hu: Népbíróságok Országos Tanácsa
^ Paul Lendvai: The Hungarians. , P. 460

personal data
SURNAME	Imrédy, Béla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Imrédy from Ómoravicza, Béla (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 29, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	Budapest
DATE OF DEATH	February 28, 1946
Place of death	Budapest

[1] Népbíróságok Országos Tanácsa (NOT) see Hungarian Wikipedia hu: Népbíróságok Országos Tanácsa

[2] Paul Lendvai: The Hungarians. , P. 460