Ferenc Mádl

Ferenc Mádl

Tomb of Ferenc Mádl

Ferenc Madl [ fɛrɛnʦ Madl ], German: Franz Madl (* 29. January 1931 in Bánd ; † 29. May 2011 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian President (2000-2005) and Jura - Professor .

Career

University career

Mádl, a Hungarian of German descent , studied law in Pécs , Budapest and Strasbourg .

He initially worked as an employee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA). Since 1971 he has held a chair at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest (first as a lecturer, then from 1973 to 2000 as a professor). His specialty is international civil law . Between 1985 and 2000 he was head of the department . He was a visiting professor at many universities (including Munich ). He had been a member of the MTA since 1987. In 1989 he became a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Political career

He only became politically active in 1990. The then head of government József Antall appointed him minister without portfolio . His job was to guide the government's science policy. In 1993 he was appointed Minister for Culture and Education (until 1994). In 1995, the then opposition parties nominated the independent law professor for the office of President. He lost to the incumbent head of state Árpád Göncz (the president elects the parliament ). In 2000, he was elected third head of state of Hungary after 1990 in the third ballot. He was inducted into office on August 4th.

Mádl was not available for a second term. The President of the Parliament, Katalin Szili, and the former President of the Hungarian Constitutional Court , László Sólyom, have been nominated to succeed him . The presidential election in parliament took place on June 6th and 7th, László Sólyom prevailed with a narrow majority. Mádl handed over his position on August 5, 2005.

Since then he has taught again at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest.

He left behind his wife, their son and three grandchildren.

literature

• Ferenc Mádl , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 20/2005 of May 21, 2005, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Obituary for the former head of state Ferenc Mádl, by Peter Bognar, Budapester Zeitung , June 3, 2011 (accessed December 20, 2014)

Web links

Commons : Ferenc Mádl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ferenc Mádl in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ex-head of state Ferenc Madl has died. In: derStandard.at. May 29, 2011. Retrieved December 7, 2017 .