Kálmán Darányi

Kálmán Darányi von Pusztaszentgyörgy and Tetétlen [ ˈkaːlmaːn ˈdɒraːɲi ] (born March 22, 1886 in Budapest ; † November 1, 1939 ibid) was a Hungarian statesman and prime minister from 1936 to 1938.

Kálmán Darányi (1939)

Life

After completing his law degree in 1909, Darányi began a career in internal administration. After the end of World War I he took part in the overthrow of the short-lived communist government of Hungary and in 1927 he was elected to parliament as a member of the Unity Party. In 1935 he became Minister of Agriculture in the Gyula Gömbös cabinet . He succeeded Gömbös as Prime Minister after his death on October 10, 1936. He continued the foreign policy of his predecessor and leaned closely on Hitler and Mussolini . Internally, he suppressed the press, extended the rights of the central government and carried out the first reprisals against Jews.

On May 13, 1938, Darányi abdicated, giving in to increasing pressure from the extreme right, and became President of Parliament.

literature

• Géza Alvinczy: A Fiatal Darányi Kálmán , Budapest, 1938.
• Randolph L. Braham : The politics of genocide. The Holocaust in Hungary , 2 vols., Columbia University Press, New York 1981, ISBN 0-231-05208-1 .

Web links

Commons : Kálmán Darányi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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