László Lukács

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László Lukács (born November 24, 1850 in Zalatna , Transylvania , † February 23, 1932 in Budapest ) was a politician, long-term finance minister and prime minister of Hungary in 1912/13 .

László Lukács 1895

Life

Lukács studied law at the University of Cluj and taught as a professor at the Győr Law Academy . In 1877 he took over the management of his family's ore mine in Zalatna and from 1878 he was a member of the Hungarian Reichstag for the Liberal Party . Lukács was a senior finance official from 1887 to 1891, from 1893 to 1895 State Secretary for Finance in the Wekerle government and then finance minister in several governments until 1905. After a political break, he was again Minister of Finance in the Károly Khuen-Héderváry government from 1910 .

After the resignation of Khuen-Héderváry, Lukács became Prime Minister on April 22, 1912 and also served as Minister of the Interior. During his tenure, he violently fought the obstruction of the opposition and passed a military and electoral law. Due to gross financial irregularities in the financing of the election campaign of the National Labor Party, which he founded , Lukács had to hand over his office to the new party leader István Tisza on June 10, 1913 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Benda:  Lukács László. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 361 f. (Direct links on p. 361 , p. 362 ).
  2. ↑ Peter F. Sugar (Ed.): A history of Hungary. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1990, ISBN 0-253-20867-X , pp. 288 ff.

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SURNAME Lukács, László
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Zalatna , Transylvania
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1932
Place of death Budapest