Frigyes puja

Frigyes Puja (1978)

Frigyes Puja (born February 2, 1921 in Battonya , Csanád county , † July 5, 2008 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian diplomat and politician of the Hungarian Communist Party MKP (Magyar Kommunista Párt) , the party of the Hungarian working people MDP (Magyar Dolgozók Pártja) and later the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party MSZMP (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt) , which was ambassador in several countries and was foreign minister between 1973 and 1983.

Life

Puya, the son of a farmer, worked in a printing works between 1942 and 1945 after attending secondary school and was in the meantime working from June to October 1943. In October 1944 he wanted to join the Romanian Communist Party in Arad , but was turned away. Shortly afterwards, in December 1944, he joined the Hungarian Communist Party and became secretary of the MKP in Battonya. After attending a party school for two months, he returned to Battonya as party secretary before becoming secretary of the MKP in Csanád in October 1946.

After working in a nursing home, he became an employee of the equipment and appointment committee in May 1949 and in January 1950 an employee in the political department of the Ministry of Agriculture. After completing a two-year training course at the MKP's party college, he joined the Foreign Service on April 1, 1953 as a diplomat. After a brief assignment in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he first became ambassador to Sweden on December 1, 1953 and was also accredited as ambassador to Norway and Denmark on February 15, 1954 . After returning to the Foreign Ministry from April 1955 to July 1959, he became ambassador to Austria on July 28, 1959 .

After his return just four months later, he served as Deputy Foreign Minister between December 1959 and December 1963 and as such was one of the closest collaborators of Foreign Minister Endre Sík and, since September 1961, of János Péter .

In December 1963, Puja became head of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Central Committee (ZK) of the MSZMP and, as such, played a key role in determining the foreign policy course of the party and the People's Republic of Hungary. On December 3, 1966 he also became a member of the Central Committee of the MSZMP and was a member of this body on March 3, 1985. From June 26, 1968, he was First Deputy Foreign Minister and, from August 3, 1973, State Secretary in the Foreign Ministry.

On August 14, 1973, Puja finally succeeded János Péter as Foreign Minister and held this ministerial office for almost ten years until he was replaced by Péter Várkonyi on July 8, 1983. His own post as State Secretary was then taken over by the previous Vice Foreign Minister, József Marjai accepted. He also became a member of parliament (Országgyűlés) on June 15, 1975 , initially representing the constituency of Békés 7 and then from June 8, 1980 to March 16, 1990, the Békés 8 constituency . On May 31, 1979 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique of Portugal .

On November 9, 1983, Puja became ambassador to Finland and represented the interests of Hungary there until March 5, 1986.

Publications

• A békés egymás mellett élés problemémái , 1967
• Egység és vita a nemzetközi kommunista mozgalomban , 1969
• Miért van szükség a Varsói Szerződésre? , 1970
• Mi az európai biztonság útja? , 1971
• Szocialista külpolitika , 1972
• A Felszabadult Battonya , 1979, ISBN 963-280-839-8
• Magyar külpolitika , 1980
• Az enyhülési folyamat jellemzői és perspektívái , 1980
• Lángoló évek , 1986, ISBN 963-281-633-1
• A szedőszekrénytől a miniszteri székig , 1988
• Szabó Ferenc – Takács László társszerző: A battonyai nyomdászat 110 éve , 2001, ISBN 963-00-9410-X

Background literature

• László Bokor: Europe at the turning point: Frigyes Puja , 1972

Web links

• Literature by and about Frigyes Puja in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry in Történelmi Tár (Hungarian)
• Hungary: Key Ministries (rulers.org)