István Vági
István Vági (born June 24, 1883 in Nagykőrös , † August 13, 1938 in Butowo near Moscow ) was a Hungarian social democratic, later communist politician . He was chairman of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party.
Life
Vági, a trained carpenter, had been unionized since 1902. During the Hungarian Soviet Republic he served as political commissar of the construction workers' battalion in the Red Army.
After the overthrow of the Soviet Republic he was secretary of the social democratic party organization, first in Győr , then in Pécs . Vági was one of the leaders of the left opposition within the Hungarian Social Democratic Party ( Magyarországi Szociáldemokrata Párt , MSzDP). From 1923 he kept contacts with the banned Communist Party of Hungary ( Kommunisták Magyarországi Pártja , KMP). In January 1925 he was therefore excluded from the MSzDP. Vági was one of the co-founders of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party ( Magyarországi Szocialista Munkáspárt , MSzMP), a new, legal workers' party founded by left-wing social democrats and communists. At the founding party congress, Vági was elected chairman of the MSzMP on April 14, 1925. At the 1st KMP party congress in Vienna in August 1925, Vági was also elected to the central committee of the KMP - which is still illegal in Hungary. At the end of 1925 they were arrested along with other officials and brought to justice. However, Vági was acquitted on August 4, 1926 for lack of evidence because the close link between legal MSzMP and illegal KMP could not be proven by the police. Before the parliamentary elections in 1926, Vági led the MSzMP election campaign.
In February 1927 Vági was arrested again, this time sentenced to four and a half years in prison. After his release in 1932, he emigrated to the Soviet Union . He then worked in the Central Europe Department of the Red Trade Union International . In 1935 he was elected to the Moscow Soviet . On March 23, 1938, Vági was arrested on trumped-up charges as part of the Stalin purges and sentenced to death by shooting on July 29, 1938. The sentence was carried out on August 13, 1938.
Vági was rehabilitated in 1955.
Honors
- The Hungarian Post issued a special stamp in 1983 on the occasion of Vági's 100th birthday .
literature
- Henrik Vass: Studies on the history of the Hungarian Working-Class Movement, 1867–1966 . Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1975, p. 197.
- György Borsányi, János Kende: The history of the working class movement in Hungary . Corvina, Budapest 1988, p. 221.
- Vági István . In: Magyar Életrajzi Lexicon 1000–1990 (Hungarian).
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vági, István |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian communist politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nagykőrös |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1938 |
| Place of death | Butowo |