Ferenc Trethon

Ferenc Trethon (born September 9, 1923 in Eger , Heves county ; † September 23, 2012 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian politician of the party of the Hungarian working people MDP (Magyar Dolgozók Pártja) and finally the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party MSZMP (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt) , who was Minister of Labor between 1977 and 1981, among other things.

Life

Trethon, son of a locksmith journeyman, completed after attending the commercial college and high school as of October 1941, a professional training at the National Mountain Directorate (Állami Kőszénbánya) in Budapest , where he was from February 1945 to October 1946 deputy head of the finance department. He then moved to the Hungarian Zoological Association MÁSZ (Magyar Állatkertek Szövetsége) , where he initially worked in the statistics and calculation department and then in the auditing department before he became auditor in March 1948. In the meantime, he completed a degree in economics at the Palatine Josef University of Technology and Economics (József Nádor Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetemen) , which he graduated in 1949. In February 1948 he became a member of the party of the Hungarian working people MDP (Magyar Dolgozók Pártja) .

Thereupon Trethon took over in March 1949 the position as head of the control department at a mining-chemical company and from May 1948 to April 1952 as deputy head of the investment department of the authority for the coal industry (Szénbányászati ​​Ipari Igazgatóság) . He then took on the role of deputy head of the department for general accounting and auditing in the Ministry of Mines. In November 1956 he became a member of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party MSZMP (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt), which emerged from the MDP . After the dissolution of the Mining Ministry in October 1967, he moved to the Ministry of Heavy Industry, where in 1971 he was promoted to head of the economic department. He then became Vice Minister of Finance on March 14, 1974.

As part of a government reshuffle, Trethon was appointed as Minister of Labor (Munkaügyi Miniszter) in the government of Prime Minister György Lázár on June 24, 1977 and held this position as the successor to László Karakas until September 30, 1981. This ministerial office was not subsequently filled.

After leaving the government, he served as co-chair of the Society for Technology and Sciences MTESZ (Műszaki és Természettudományi Egyesületek Szövetsége) between 1981 and 1989 and was also director of the Institute for Business Administration and Management from 1982 until his retirement in 1991 of the University of Veszprém . In addition, he was President of the Society for Organization and Administration SZVT (Szervezési és Vezetési Társaság) , a sub-organization of the MTESZ, from 1983 to 1996 , and also First Vice-Chairman of the European Council for Management Sciences from 1989 to 1995.

After his death, Trethon, who in 1983 became the chairman of the Baráti Kör football club's circle of friends , was buried in the Újköztemető cemetery in Kőbánya , Budapest's 10th district .

Web links

• Entry in Történelmi Tár (Hungarian)
• Upheaval in Hungary 1985-1990 - government lists ( Herder Institute (Marburg) )
• Szurkolók a múltból: dr. Trethon Ferenc, a miniszter (Homepage of the FTC Baráti Kör from January 8, 2010)
• Elhunyt Dr. Trethon Ferenc, az SZVT egykori elnöke (obituary on the SZVT homepage from October 1, 2012)