László Bárdossy

László Bárdossy (around 1941)

László Bárdossy [ ˈlaːsloː ˈbaːrdoʃi ] (born December 10, 1890 in Szombathely , Austria-Hungary ; † ( executed ) January 10, 1946 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian diplomat and politician .

Life

Bárdossy studied law and entered the civil service after graduating in 1913. He first worked in the Ministry of Education and then moved to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1922. There he was initially head of department and later head of the press office. At the beginning of the 1930s, Bárdossy worked at the Hungarian embassy in London and in 1934 he was appointed ambassador to Romania.

From February 1941 to April 1941 he was Foreign Minister of the Hungarian Government. After the suicide of Prime Minister Pál Teleki by Miklós Horthy, Bardossy was appointed his successor. As Hungarian Prime Minister from April 4, 1941 to March 1942, he stood for greater ideological and political rapprochement with Nazi Germany.

During his term of office he participated in the German campaign against Yugoslavia , the Soviet Union and the declarations of war on the USA and England. During his tenure, Hungary's third law on Jews was passed, which sealed the complete exclusion of the Jewish population from society and the economy. On March 10, 1942, he was replaced by the more moderate Miklós Kállay .

Before the advancing Soviet army , Bárdossy fled to Austria in March 1945, where he lived for a short time in Innsbruck until he was arrested by the Americans in May and handed over to the new Hungarian government. The Hungarian People's Court he was a war criminal sentenced to death , and on January 10, 1946 executed .

literature

Franz Sz. Horváth: Bárdossy, László , in: Handbuch des Antisemitismus , Volume 2/1, 2009, p. 51 f.
Pál Pritz: The War Crimes Trial of Hungarian Prime Minister László Bárdossy . Columbia University Press, 2005

Web links

Commons : László Bárdossy - collection of images, videos and audio files

Newspaper article about László Bárdossy in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b László Bárdossy. In: Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011. Web. 14 Jun. 2011. < http://www.bridica.com/EBchecked/topic/53151/Laszlo-Bardossy >.
^ ^A ^b András Bán: Hungarian-British Diplomacy, 1938–1941. The attempt to maintain relations. Cass, London et al. 2004, ISBN 0-7146-5660-7 , pp. 143–148, ( excerpt in Google book search).
^ Roni Stauber: Collaboration with the Nazis. Public Discourse After the Holocaust. Taylor & Francis Hoboken NJ 2010, ISBN 978-0-203-85171-5 , p. 235, ( excerpt in Google book search).
↑ Gerald Steinacher : Nazis on the Run. How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-957686-9 , p. 87, ( excerpt from Google book search).
↑ Randolph L. Braham : The politics of genocide. The Holocaust in Hungary. Volume 2. Columbia University Press, New York NY 1981, ISBN 0-231-04388-0 , p. 1165.

personal data
SURNAME	Bárdossy, László
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian diplomat and politician, Prime Minister (1941–1942)
DATE OF BIRTH	December 10, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Szombathely
DATE OF DEATH	January 10, 1946
Place of death	Budapest

[britannica-1] László Bárdossy. In: Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011. Web. 14 Jun. 2011. < http://www.bridica.com/EBchecked/topic/53151/Laszlo-Bardossy >.

[Ban-2] A ^b András Bán: Hungarian-British Diplomacy, 1938–1941. The attempt to maintain relations. Cass, London et al. 2004, ISBN 0-7146-5660-7 , pp. 143–148, ( excerpt in Google book search).

[Stauber-3] Roni Stauber: Collaboration with the Nazis. Public Discourse After the Holocaust. Taylor & Francis Hoboken NJ 2010, ISBN 978-0-203-85171-5 , p. 235, ( excerpt in Google book search).

[Steinacher-4] Gerald Steinacher : Nazis on the Run. How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-957686-9 , p. 87, ( excerpt from Google book search).

[Braham-5] Randolph L. Braham : The politics of genocide. The Holocaust in Hungary. Volume 2. Columbia University Press, New York NY 1981, ISBN 0-231-04388-0 , p. 1165.