Lajos Drahos
Lajos Drahos (born March 7, 1895 in Budafok , Budapest , † June 2, 1983 in Budapest) was a Hungarian politician .
Life
Drahos initially worked as a construction worker , after joining the Central Association of Iron and Metal Workers in 1913 he also became involved as a union function and in 1915 became a shop steward in the Manfréd-Weiss factories . In 1919 he was a soldier in the Red Railroad Regiment at the time of the Hungarian Federal Socialist Soviet Republic . He was later a member of the organizing committee of the trade union federation in the Budapest district of Csepel from 1926 to 1938 , before he was banished from this district in 1938 after his arrest and subsequent conviction . In 1944 he joined the Communist Party (MKP) and at the end of 1944 took part in the resistance movement in Csepel.
After the end of the Second World War he became a member of the Committee of Iron and Metal Workers in the Csepel District in autumn 1945 and was its vice-president until autumn 1948. At the same time he became a member of parliament ( Országgyűlés ) in 1945 and was a member of it until 1951.
In 1946 he was elected member of the Central Committee (ZK), to which he remained until 1954, even after the Communist Party was renamed the Party of Hungarian Working People (MDP). Drahos was President of the Hungarian Parliament from August 23, 1949 to May 18, 1951.
He was then ambassador to the People's Republic of Poland from May 1951 until his retirement in March 1955 .
After the Hungarian uprising of 1956, he helped reorganize the MDP into the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSZMP) and was most recently vice-president of the Union of Workers in the Iron, Metal and Electrical Industry (VFVDS).
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| SURNAME | Drahos, Lajos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian politician, Member of Parliament |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budafok , Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 2nd 1983 |
| Place of death | Budapest |