Ferenc Berkes (politician)

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Ferenc Berkes (born April 4, 1893 in Kiskunfélegyháza , † November 21, 1919 in Orgovány ) was a Hungarian journalist and communist politician.

Life

Ferenc Berkes learned the trade of locksmith. From 1912 to 1915 he was a journalist for the daily newspaper Szegedi Napló (in German: Szegediner Tagblatt ), which is described as "progressive and bourgeois".

At the time of the proclamation of the Hungarian Federal Socialist Council Republic (March 21, 1919), Ferenc Berkes was an employee of the Budapest social democratic daily Népszava (in German: Volksstimme ), then a political employee of the Hangya trade union (in German: Ant ). The government council appointed him envoy for Kecskemét and political commissar of the 1st Army in June 1919 .

After the defeat of the Soviet Republic, which collapsed on August 1, 1919, and after the Romanian troops left Kecskemét on November 16, about 55 prisoners were taken to Orgovány and into the forest at Szikra, where Ferenc Berkes along with 32 others from the corps des Iván Héjjas (1890–1950) was executed; Berkes himself had ordered several executions in Kecskemét in July.

The Hungarian Post dedicated a stamp with a face value of 1 forint to Ferenc Berkes , which was issued for the fifth congress of the Hungarian cooperative movement and appeared on March 29, 1962. From 1971 to 1990 there was a business school and also a student residence in Kecskemét, which were named after him. A housing estate in Kecskemét still bears his name today.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Kecskemét lexicon on sulinet.hu (Hungarian)
  2. ↑ József Károlyfalvi: Kecskemét az első világháború és a forradalmak korában (1914–1920) on mek.oszk.hu (Hungarian)
  3. ^ The stamp with Ferenc Berkes
  4. ↑ A szövetkezeti iskola megalakulása Kecskeméten ( Memento from June 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on afeosziskola.hu (Hungarian)
  5. ↑ Utca: 8000 Berkes Ferenc lakótelep on utca-terkep.valami.info (Hungarian)
personal data
SURNAME Berkes, Ferenc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian journalist and communist politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiskunfélegyháza
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1919
Place of death Orgovány