Lajos Faluvégi

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Lajos Faluvégi (born October 22, 1924 in Mátraderecske , Pétervására small area , Heves county ; † December 5, 1999 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian politician of the party of the Hungarian working people MDP (Magyar Dolgozók Pártja) and finally the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party MSZMP (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt) , who was finance minister from 1971 to 1980, then vice-prime minister between 1980 and 1986 and at the same time president of the State Planning Office.

Life

Ministerial Officer and Vice Minister of Finance

Faluvégi, son of an officer , began training as an accountant at the paper trading company Papírkereskedelmi Rt. After attending the commercial college Lajos Kossuth in 1943 and then switched to the incapacity department at the Central Pay Office in January 1944. After he had to work temporarily as a forced laborer during the Second World War , he returned to his old job in May 1945, before becoming an employee of the Office for War Victims Compensation (Jóvátételi Hivatalnál) in June 1946 .

In December 1948, Faluvégi, who joined the Hungarian Social Democratic Party MSZDP (Magyarországi Szociáldemokrata Párt) in 1947 , became an employee in the Ministry of Finance, where he was initially employed as a clerk for input tax issues in the budget department. After a six-month course for tax officials, he returned to the Ministry of Finance in 1951 and became the school budget rapporteur and at that time also joined the party of the Hungarian working people, MDP (Magyar Dolgozók Pártja) .

In 1952 he moved to the Ministry of Budget and worked there first in the finance department and then from the beginning of 1953 as deputy head of the accounting department. In October 1954 he became head of the department for the financial plan and in 1961 head of the department for budget adjustment. In addition, he completed a degree in finance at the Karl Marx University of Economics MKKE (Marx Károly Közgazdaságtudományi Egyetem) , which he graduated in 1962.

After the budget ministry was dissolved, he returned to the finance ministry on July 1, 1968, where he became vice minister of finance. In September 1968, together with István Friss , Péter Vályi , József Bognár and Tamás Nagy, he was appointed to a working group formed by the Central Committee for Economic Affairs for the further development of the administration and organization of the economic system.

Finance Minister, Vice Prime Minister and President of the State Planning Office

As part of a government reshuffle Faluvégi was on 12 May 1971 as Finance Minister (pénzügyminiszter) in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Jenő Fock and held this position in the government of his successor György Lázár until 27 June 1980..

Furthermore, on March 22, 1975 on the XI. Party Congress of the MSZMP his election as a member of the Central Committee (ZK), to which he belonged until May 22, 1988.

Subsequently, on June 27, 1980, he was appointed deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers and thus until December 30, 1986, one of the deputies of Prime Minister Lázár. At the same time he acted from June 27, 1980 to December 30, 1986 as President of the State Planning Office (Országos Tervhivatal) and also became Chairman of the State Planning Commission (Állami Tervbizottság) in February 1981 . He was also a member of his party's economic policy committee from 1985 to 1986.

After leaving the government, he took over a professorship at the University of Economics and Finance (Pénzügyi és Számviteli Főiskolán) and was also a member of the editorial team of the Pénzügyi Szemle journal . In 1987 he was awarded the Gyula Lengyel Prize, which was named after the 1919 Minister of Finance.

Collapse of communism and commitment to the Budapest Stock Exchange

He was also President of the Hungarian Association of Accountants (Magyar Könyvvizsgálók Egyesületének) from 1988 to 1993 and President of the Council for the Reopening of the Budapest Stock Exchange (Budapesti Értéktőzsde) between May 1989 and June 1990 , of which he was a member of the Supervisory Board from 1990 to 1993.

In an interview on March 11, 1993, Faluvégi described the functioning of the government during the time of the People's Republic of Hungary and compared the changes during the period of the collapse of communism, such as in Czechoslovakia . After the introduction of the economic reforms, the state claimed greater space for economic maneuvers. The process of political decision-making was similar to that in other countries such as Czechoslovakia. He stated that the MSZMP Politburo made the main decision while the government had to work out the details. He added that most of the ministers were party members who followed the main direction of the party, so that only details remained. The Politburo retained a right of veto on these details as well. This usually forced the government to revise the details two or three times before it gave its final approval.

Five years after his death, the Lajos Faluvégi Foundation (Faluvégi Lajos Alapítvány) was founded on the initiative of his family in 2004 , which works to promote Hungarian culture.

Publications

  • Költségvetési gazdálkodás (1962)
  • Állami pénzügyek és gazdaságirányítás (1973)
  • Pénzügyeink a hetvenes években (1980)
  • Gazdasági építőmunkák feltételei és a pénzügyi politika (1980)
  • A tervezés mai értéke (1983)
  • Számvitel, adózás és vállalkozás (1991)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Iván T. Berend : The Hungarian Economic Reforms, 1953-1988 , 1990, p. 194, ISBN 0-52138-037-5
  2. ^ Martin McCauley, Stephen Carter: Leadership and Succession in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China , 1986, p. 113, ISBN 0-87332-347-5
  3. ↑ Steven Saxonberg: The Fall: A Comparative Study of the End of Communism in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Poland , 2013, p. 112, ISBN 1-13443-514-2
personal data
SURNAME Faluvégi, Lajos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian communist politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Mátraderecske , small area Pétervására , Heves
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1999
Place of death Budapest