György Fejti

György Fejti (born March 10, 1946 in Sátoraljaújhely , Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County ) is a former Hungarian politician of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party MSZMP (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt) , who was among other things first secretary of the Central Committee (ZK) of the Communist Committee between 1980 and 1984 Youth League KISZ was.

Life

Fejti, who came from a working-class family, began to study mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Budapest BME (Budapesti Műszaki Egyetem) after attending school , from which he graduated in 1969 with a diploma. During his studies, he became a member of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party MSZMP (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt) in 1968 and began working as a teaching assistant in 1971. In 1972 he became an employee of the Central Committee (ZK) of the Communist Youth League KISZ (Magyar Kommunista Ifjúsági Szövetség) , where he was head of the organization department between 1974 and 1976 before he became secretary of the KISZ Central Committee between 1976 and 1979. During this time he completed his studies at the party college of the MSZMP in 1977 and acted between May 1, 1979 and December 3, 1980 as deputy head of the department of party and mass organizations of the MSZMP Central Committee. On December 2, 1980, at a central committee plenum, he also became a member of the central committee of the MSZMP.

On December 3, 1980 Fejti succeeded László Maróthy as first secretary of the KISZ Central Committee and held this position until he was replaced by Csaba Hámori on December 7, 1984. In this function he was also a member of the Central Committee for Physical Education and Sport and Secretary of the Central Committee for Youth.

On December 7, 1984, he became the First Secretary of the MSZMP Party Committee in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County . After finishing this activity he moved to the central party administration and on June 27, 1987 became Central Committee Secretary for Administrative Affairs. He then became a member of the Central Committee of the Central Committee for International Law and Administration in December 1988, where he was responsible for legislative procedures in the government of Prime Minister Miklós Németh . In this function, as deputy head of the MSZMP delegation, from April 1989 he led talks on political change in Hungary, which among other things led to the dismantling of the border fortifications with Austria . After the dissolution of the Politburo of the MSZMP, he became a member of the MSZMP Steering Committee in July 1989, before retiring from political life in October 1989 and since then has worked as an entrepreneur in the private sector.

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