Imre Dimény

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Imre Dimény (born August 3, 1922 in Komolló , Covasna district , Romania ; † March 15, 2017 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian politician of the Party of Hungarian Working People MDP (Magyar Dolgozók Pártja) and finally the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party MSZMP (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt ) , who was Minister for Agriculture and Food between 1967 and 1975.

Life

Agronomist, ministerial official and party official

After attending a primary school from 1928 to 1933 in Háromszék County and secondary schools from 1933 to 1937 in Sepsiszentgyörgy and from 1937 to 1941 in Gyergyószentmiklós between 1941 and 1944 , Dimény, who comes from a farming family, studied agricultural engineering at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Veterinary medicine and then at the agricultural school of Kolosvár , which he graduated with a diploma in 1945. He then moved to Hungary as an agricultural worker, where he became a member of the National Peasant Party (Nemzeti Parasztpárt) in 1948 and a reporter in the Berettyóújfalu Agriculture Office in 1949 . In 1950 he took over a position as head of the agricultural machinery stations in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county and in 1951 joined the party of the Hungarian working people MDP (Magyar Dolgozók Pártja) .

Subsequently, Dimény moved to the Ministry of Agriculture in 1951, where he was first section head and later deputy head of department before he became chairman of the Agriculture Council in Hajdú-Bihar County in 1954 . In September 1955 he became head of department in the National Planning Office (Országos Tervhivatal) and then from August 29, 1960 to November 24, 1962, initially deputy head and then between November 24, 1962 and December 3, 1966, head of the agricultural department of the Central Committee ( ZK) of the MSZMP. At the same time he was first a candidate on November 24, 1962 at the 8th Party Congress and then on December 3, 1966 at the IX. Party Congress member of the Central Committee of the MSZMP, which he was until the XI. Party Congress on March 22, 1975.

In addition, he served as President of the Society for Agricultural Economics of the Society of Agricultural Sciences (Magyar Agrártudományi Egyesület) from 1961 to 1980 and at the same time as First Vice-President of the Society of Agricultural Sciences between 1963 and 1991.

Agriculture minister, economic reforms of the 1960s and 1970s, and university lecturers

After Pál Losonczi became Chairman of the Presidential Council on April 13, 1967, and thus President of Hungary, Dimény succeeded it as Minister for Agriculture and Food (Mezőgazdasági és Földművelésügyi miniszter) in the government of Prime Minister Jenő Fock and held this position for a short time in the government of Prime Minister György Lázár formed on May 15, 1975 until his replacement by Pál Romány on July 4, 1975.

As Minister of Agriculture, he participated in the economic reform that began on January 1, 1968, which led to largely independent production planning for companies, material incentives, liberalization of markets and prices, and quality improvements. The reform leads from extensive to intensive economic growth and from 1970 onwards makes the Hungarian economy more successful and internationally more attractive. In November and December 1972 there was a modification of the economic reform that had made the Hungarian economy the most successful in the state socialist countries. On the one hand, the national economic plans should be discussed in parliament (Országgyűlés) , on the other hand, "dangers" of the market economy had to be countered, for example the emergence of large income differences, private sector enrichment or overinvestment.

After leaving the government, Dimény took over a professorship at the University of Horticulture and Food Industry (Kertészeti és Élelmiszeripari Egyetem) in July 1975 and taught there until 1991. At the same time he was rector of this university from July 1975 to June 1986 , which is the current department for Department of Food Economics of the Corvinus University Budapest .

In 1990 he became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia) , whose Committee on Agriculture he had chaired since 1976.

Publications

  • A gépesítés ökonómiája a mezőgazdaságban , 1971
  • Mezőgazdaságunk és a műszaki fejlesztés , 1973
  • Az állattartás gépesítésének ökonómiája , 1973
  • A gépesítésfejlesztés ökonómiája a mezőgazdaságban , 1975
  • A gépesítésfejlesztés a kertészeti ágazatokban , 1981
  • A kertgazdaság vállalati alapjai , 1983
  • A kertgazdaság ökonómiai alapjai , 1989
  • Élelmiszergazdasági erőforrások hatékonyságának javítása , 1992
  • A mezőgazdaság szerepe a halmozottan hátrányos helyzetű térségek fejlesztésénél , 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Az MTA köztestületének tagjai: Dimény Imre. In: mta.hu. Hungarian Academy of Sciences , March 16, 2017, accessed March 19, 2017 (Hungarian).
  2. ↑ The Great Ploetz. The Encyclopedia of World History , Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 35th edition, 2008, p. 1562, ISBN 978-3-525-32008-2
personal data
SURNAME Dimény, Imre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian agronomist and communist politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Komolló , Covasna County , Romania
DATE OF DEATH 15th March 2017
Place of death Budapest , Hungary