József Antall

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József Antall (kisjenői) [ ˈjoːʒɛf ˈɒntɒl ˈkiʃjɛnøːi ] (born April 8, 1932 in Budapest ; † December 12, 1993 ibid) was a Hungarian high school teacher , librarian , museologist and politician . He was the prime minister of the first freely elected government in Hungary after the political change in Hungary in 1989 and the opening of the Iron Curtain .

József Antall (1990)
József Antall's tomb

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József Antall comes from a small aristocratic, Christian-democratic family. His father József Antall Senior , lawyer and department head in the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior, helped Polish (including Jewish) refugees in Hungary during the Second World War and was later awarded the title Righteous Among the Nations . He worked in several ministries and among other things developed the first method for calculating the subsistence level .

József Antall decided at the age of 16 to embark on a political career. He graduated from the Piarist High School in Budapest in 1950 . He then majored in Hungarian language and literature and history at the University of Budapest . He wrote his diploma thesis on the politics of József Eötvös and completed additional training as a museologist and librarian. After graduation , he worked at the Hungarian State Archives and later at the Institute for Pedagogy. He began teaching at the József-Eötvös-Gymnasium in 1955 and headed the revolutionary committee there in October 1956 . He took part in the reorganization of the Association of Young Christians . After the Hungarian uprising he was arrested several times, but was initially allowed to continue teaching. He came to teach at the Ferenc-Toldy High School in Budapest; In 1959 he was banned from teaching. After his suspension, he worked as a librarian for two years. In 1963 he wrote 80 doctors' biographies for the Hungarian Biography Dictionary. He later became head of the Semmelweis Museum of the History of Medicine; he held this position until 1974. During his work he met many doctors and historians. In 1986 he became deputy head of the International Association for the History of Medicine.

Political career

In March 1989, the opposition round table was established in Hungary . The Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF), which at that time was already active as a registered party, also delegated Antall to this body. Antall received increasing attention through his constructive constitutional proposals and was elected chairman of the MDF on October 21, 1989. After the MDF won the election in 1990, Antall was tasked with forming a government. With his government he created the conditions for the political, economic and foreign policy change in Hungary. In 1990 he was already seriously ill. He died in December 1993, several months before the normal end of his four-year tenure, his cancer . He is buried in the cemetery in the Fiumei út ( Kerepesi temető ). For the period up to the parliamentary elections in May 1994, Péter Boross was appointed Prime Minister.

Others

József Antall's saying at an MDF meeting in the early 1990s “ If only you would have made a revolution! "(Hungarian: Tetszettek volna forradalmat csinálni! - sometimes translated as" Why didn't you make a revolution? "), As a laconic response to criticism from your own parliamentary group that the political change in Hungary was once a burden due to the peaceful course Communist officials had not been removed from public office sustainably enough. This quote became a popular winged word among Hungarian posterity .

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see en: Hungarian parliamentary election, 1994
  2. ↑ Katja Tamchina: The European Union and Hungary. LIT Verlag Münster, 2000, ISBN 978-3-825-84541-4 , p. 92 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  3. ↑ http://www.antalljozsef.hu/idezet_9
  4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.6 MB)

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personal data
SURNAME Antall, József
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian high school teacher, librarian, museologist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1993
Place of death Budapest