János Boldóczki

János Boldóczki (born August 22, 1912 in Tótkomlós , Békés county ; † December 14, 1988 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian diplomat and politician of the Hungarian Communist Party MKP (Magyar Kommunista Párt) , the party of the Hungarian working people MDP (Magyar Dolgozók Pártja) and later the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party MSZMP (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt) , who was ambassador to various states and temporarily foreign minister.

Life

Boldóczki left elementary school after five school years at the age of eleven and then worked as a day laborer and farm worker until 1945. In the early 1930s he began his political engagement when he was secretary of the Hungarian Social Democratic Party MSZDP (Magyarországi Szociáldemokrata Párt) from 1932 to 1933 in his hometown of Tótkomlós. In 1944 he joined the Hungarian Communist Party MKP (Magyar Kommunista Párt) .

After the end of the Second World War , he became secretary of the MKP in Tótkomlós in 1946 and, after six months of training at a party school in Budapest, was secretary of the MKP in Békéscsaba until 1948 . After the unification of the MKP and the MSZDP to form the Party of Hungarian Working People MDP (Magyar Dolgozók Pártja) on June 12, 1948, he became an employee of the cadre department of the Central Committee (ZK) of the new party and later head of this department. In addition, he acted as General Secretary of the Democratic Alliance of Slovaks in Hungary (Magyarországi Szlovákok Demokratikus Szövetsége) .

In the election of May 15, 1949, Boldóczki was elected as a candidate on the joint list of the Hungarian Independent Popular Front MFN (Magyar Függetlenségi Népfront) and the Patriotic Popular Front (Hazafias Népfront) as a member of the Hungarian Parliament (Országgyűlés) and represented the Békés county.

In 1950 he entered the foreign service as a diplomat and became ambassador to Czechoslovakia . On July 4, 1953, he succeeded Erik Molnár as Foreign Minister and kept this ministerial office until his replacement on July 30, 1956 by Imre Horváth , the previous President of the Institute for Cultural Associations and previous Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. During this time he was from May 30, 1954 to October 28, 1956 also a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the MDP.

After his dismissal as foreign minister, Boldóczki became ambassador to the Soviet Union in August 1956 and worked there until he was recalled in May 1960. He was also accredited as ambassador to the Mongolian People's Republic between April and August 1957 .

In November 1960, on his return, he became director of a breeding company of the National Poultry Production Cooperative and later from 1970 until his retirement he was deputy director of the Budapest Trade and Consumers' Cooperative.

Web links

• Entry in Történelmi Tár (Hungarian)
• Hungary: Key Ministries (rulers.org)