István Csáky

The Hungarian Foreign Minister Csáky signs the Second Vienna Arbitration Award in 1940, Prime Minister Pál Teleki on the left

Ribbentrop, Teleki and Csáky in Munich 1940

István Csáky , Hungarian Gróf Csáky István , German  Count Stefan von Csáky , English "Count Stephan Csáky" (born July 14, 1894 in Segesvár , Austria-Hungary ; † January 27, 1941 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian politician who from 1938 to was Hungarian Foreign Minister on his death in 1941.

Life

Csáky was born in Segesvár (now Sighișoara , Romania), which at the time belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary . He studied political science in Budapest and received his doctorate. He attended the Imperial and Royal Consular Academy in Vienna and joined the Hungarian foreign service in 1919. After the First World War , he took part as a diplomat in the peace negotiations that led to the Treaty of Trianon . He then worked at the Hungarian embassies at the Vatican and in Bucharest, Madrid, where he was chargé d'affaires from 1933 to 1935, and Lisbon, and held various functions in the Foreign Ministry in Budapest. He was friends with Mussolini , who took him on a plane to Libya in 1937. He was promoted to head of cabinet of Foreign Minister Kálmán Kánya . As Hungary's official observer, he took part in the negotiations on the Munich Agreement in 1938 and was a member of the Hungarian delegation in November 1938 in the follow-up negotiations on the First Vienna Arbitration Award. On December 10, 1938, Prime Minister Béla Imrédy appointed him Hungarian Foreign Minister. Imrédy was also his predecessor as foreign minister.

As foreign minister in 1940, Csáky played a leading role in the negotiations on the Second Vienna Arbitration Award, with which the territories lost to Romania in the Trianon Treaty were to be regained. Hungary's accession to the Tripartite Pact also fell during Csáky's term of office. On December 17, 1940, at Germany's instigation, he signed a friendship agreement between Hungary and Yugoslavia , which Hungary would soon break by invading Germany's side. Csáky did not live to see this, as he died of a serious illness in January 1941.

Csáky had been married to Countess Maria Anna Chorinsky since March 15, 1940 .

literature

• Csáky, Count István (1894-1941) . In: Eric Roman (Ed.): Austria-Hungary and the successor states: a reference guide from the Renaissance to the present . Facts On File, New York 2003, ISBN 0-8160-4537-2 , pp. 455-456.
• Friedrich Christof: pacification in the Danube region. The Second Vienna Arbitration Award and German-Hungarian diplomatic relations 1939–1942 . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-631-33233-5 .
• O. Zobel: Csáky, István Graf . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 1. Munich 1974, p. 339 f.

Web links

Commons : István Csáky  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Newspaper article about István Csáky in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Friedrich Christof: Pacification in the Danube region. 1998, p. 204.