János Martonyi

Martonyi visits Michael Spindelegger .

János Martonyi (born April 5, 1944 in Kolozsvár / Cluj , Romania ) is a Hungarian lawyer and politician of the right-wing conservative party Fidesz . He was Foreign Minister of Hungary from 1998–2002 and 2010–2014 .

Life

Martonyi was born in Kolozsvár, which was ceded to Hungary in 1940 after the Second Vienna Arbitration and returned to Romania in 1945. He studied law in the communist People's Republic of Hungary and graduated in 1967 with the Hungarian law diploma. He then worked as a lawyer and later as trade secretary at the Hungarian embassy in Belgium. Since the 1980s he has taught law at various universities in Budapest and Europe. Between his terms as foreign minister, he was also a partner at Baker & McKenzie in Budapest.

From 1964 to 1968 he wrote regular reports for the Hungarian secret police during study trips to Western Europe.

In 1988, shortly before the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, he joined the Hungarian communist party MSZMP . During the transition he was the communist government's commissioner for privatization and later its deputy foreign minister.

Since 2003 he has been a member of the Fidesz party.

Awards

• 1999: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George
• 2000: Large gold medal on ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria

Web links

Commons : János Martonyi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Curriculum Vitae: Foreign Minister János Martonyi. Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary, October 13, 2010, archived from the original on August 5, 2012 ; accessed on January 23, 2016 (English). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Paul Lendvai : Revelations . In: The Standard . May 31, 2007 ( derstandard.at ).
3. ↑ A leendő Orbán kormány tablója. In: Kossuth Rádió . May 3, 2010, archived from the original on September 7, 2012 ; Retrieved January 23, 2016 (Hungarian). 
4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)