Gergely Prőhle

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Gergely Prőhle, 2012

Gergely Prőhle (born June 26, 1965 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian politician and diplomat .

Life

The Prőhle family had immigrated to Hungary from Germany several generations earlier . He is the great-grandson of the theologian Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Pröhle . He learned German from the age of six .

From 1986 on, Prőhle studied German at the University of Hamburg . In his diploma thesis he dealt with German novels of the 1970s. He also studied International Relations and then worked as State Secretary in the Hungarian Ministry of Education. In this role he was in charge of the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1999, which focused on Hungary. Prőhle was also the director of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, which is closely related to the German FDP , in Budapest.

In the summer of 2000 he became the Hungarian ambassador to Germany based in Berlin . He held the office until December 2002. From 2003 to 2005 he was ambassador to Switzerland .

This was followed by an assignment as deputy head of the press office of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry. In June 2010 he became State Secretary in the Foreign Ministry and was responsible for relations with states of the European Union . In 2014 he became State Secretary in the Ministry of Social Resources. There, too, he was responsible for EU and international affairs. He appeared frequently in German-language media, where he represented positions in the Hungarian government of Viktor Orbán .

Since January 1st, 2017 he was the director of the Petőfi Literature Museum in Budapest. After weeks of attacks in a newspaper close to the government, his employment relationship was terminated on November 1, 2018 "by mutual agreement" .

Works

  • Hungary on the way to the European Union. 2001.

Web links

Commons : Gergely Prőhle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Roth: Dirty Democracy: Hollowed Out - Exploited - Wiped Out? Ecowin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7110-5162-2
  2. ↑ Director of the Budapest Literature Museum resigns , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on October 4, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Prőhle, Gergely
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest