Lajos Walko

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Lajos Walko

Lajos Walko (born October 30, 1880 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; died January 10, 1954 in Visegrád ) was a Hungarian politician in the Horthy regime .

Life

Walko studied law, also in Leipzig and in Berlin in 1901, and received his doctorate. From 1902 he worked at the Hungarian discount and exchange bank (Magyar Leszámítoló és Pénzváltó Bank). In 1911 he moved to the Hungarian Ministry of Finance (Pénnahmyminisztérium) of the Hungarian state Austria-Hungary and also worked in the diplomatic service.

After the First World War, the Republican Aster Revolution and the suppression of the Hungarian Soviet Republic , he became State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance in 1919. Walko was the Hungarian finance minister from September to December 1921. He became a member of the Hungarian Parliament. From June 1922 to October 1926 he was Minister of Commerce. From March 1925 to December 1930 and from December 1931 to October 1932 he was Hungarian Foreign Minister. As Foreign Minister he also dealt with the revision of the Trianon Treaty , the constant political issue in Hungary since 1919. More important, however, was the current financial stabilization of Hungary.

From 1938 he was president of Pesti Magyar Kereskedelmi Bank .

literature

  • Friedrich Christof: pacification in the Danube region. The Second Vienna Arbitration Award and German-Hungarian diplomatic relations 1939–1942 . Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1998

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Individual evidence

  1. Friedrich Christof: Friedification in the Danube Region , 1998, p. 17