Ladislaus of Radocsay

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Ladislaus von Radocsay , also László Radocsay , (born November 18, 1878 in Istvánfölde , Terontál County, † November 14, 1968 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian Minister of Justice and parliamentarian.

Studies and first professional positions

Ladislaus of Radocsay studied at the University of Budapest , the Law and acquired here the legal doctorate. He then became a lawyer and fee tax in the free royal city of Temesvár and the Temes County . In 1914 he was elected senior notary there. During the First World War he was a reserve lieutenant in the artillery . In 1918 he was assigned to the Ministry of Public Catering. He then worked in the development of credit unions . He achieved the position of general director of the district credit cooperative in the Danube-Tisza area with its seat in Kecskemét . In 1929 he was appointed Chief Economic Councilor by the Reich Administrator of Hungary, Miklós Horthy . In June 1934 he was appointed to the Hungarian position of a senior team first of the combined Komorn and Gran counties and then in 1935 also to the senior team of the Raab , Moson and Pozsony counties and the royal free city of Raab . Until 1939 he also worked as the head team of the free town of Gran.

Justice Minister and Parliamentarian of Hungary

On November 8, 1938, Ladislaus von Radocsay was appointed Minister of Justice of Hungary. Shortly afterwards he was elected as a representative of the Hungarian ruling party in the Tapolca - Balatonfüred constituency of the former Prime Minister Kálmán Darányi as a member of the Reichstag. On December 3, 1940 he was appointed Royal Hungarian Privy Councilor. He remained Minister of Justice in several cabinets until the occupation of Hungary by National Socialist Germany on March 9, 1944 .

As of September 6, 1941, as Hungarian Minister of Justice, he visited National Socialist Germany for several days at the invitation of State Secretary Franz Schlegelberger . The gazette of the Reich Ministry of Justice, Deutsche Justiz u. a. the following reports:

Furthermore, State Secretary Dr. Freisler , representatives of the Foreign Office , the Propaganda Ministry and other gentlemen from the Reich Ministry of Justice | P. 912 found. [...] On September 7th the Hungarian Minister of Justice, State Secretary Dr. Schlegelberger paid a visit to the Reich Ministry of Justice. [...] On September 8, 1941, the Hungarian minister and his company visited the Court of Appeal , the People's Court , the Institute for Foreign Public and International Law as well as the building of the National Socialist Lawyers ' Association , where he was led by the Reich Managing Director Dr. Heuber on behalf of the Reich Minister General Governor Dr. Frank was greeted. [...] On Tuesday, further facilities of the justice administration , in particular the prison in Brandenburg , were inspected. The Hungarian minister then went on a trip through Germany with his company, during which he will visit other courts and prisons. A visit was made to the Imperial Court in Leipzig on Tuesday and the State Hereditary Court in Celle was inspected the following day .

From a German point of view, the following reports were made about the performance as Justice Minister of Hungary in 1941 :

Of the Hungarian laws that arose during his activity as minister, the following should be mentioned: the law on the limitation and abolition of the adverse legal consequences associated with the criminal sentence (rehabilitation law), the law on the criminal protection of nationality and the law on supplementation and the amendment of the Marriage Act as well as the racial protection provisions required in this regard .
Of the completed under the leadership of excellence of Radocsay international agreements should be emphasized: the German-Hungarian agreements on legalization, the German-Hungarian Copyright Convention, the German-Hungarian extradition treaty , the German-Hungarian Legal Assistance Treaty in matters of civil and commercial law, the German-Hungarian Consular contract and the German-Hungarian written agreement. Further negotiations are currently taking place on drafts for a German-Hungarian agreement on civil status documents , a search agreement, an agreement on the mutual recognition of family law decisions and death declarations, and an agreement on the recognition and enforcement of decisions in maintenance matters.

Fonts Radocsay

  • László v. Radocsay: The renewal of the law in Hungary. (Writings of the Academy for German Law : Group Law of Foreign Countries; No. 1) Munich / Berlin: CH Beck, 1942, (39 pages)

source

  • Report on the visit of the Hungarian Minister of Justice in Germany in September 1941 with a short biography of the visitor in the magazine "Deutsche Justiz", ed. from Reichsminister der Justiz, issue 37 of September 12, 1941, pp. 911f

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magyar Életrajzi Lexicon 1000-1990: Radocsay László . Retrieved January 13, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c d e "German Justice", ed. from Reichsminister der Justiz, issue 37 of September 12, 1941, pp. 911f
  3. ↑ Peter Durucz: Hungary in the foreign policy of the Third Reich from 1942 to 1945. V&R Unipress: Göttingen 2006, p. 269 f.
personal data
SURNAME Radocsay, Ladislaus von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Radocsay, László
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian Minister of Justice and Parliamentarian
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Istvánfölde , Terontál county
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1968
Place of death Budapest