Mátyás Tímár

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Mátyás Tímár (born July 10, 1923 in Mohács , Baranya County ; † February 16, 2020 ) was a Hungarian banker , university professor and 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 Minister of Finance from 1962 to 1967, then Vice Prime Minister between 1967 and 1975 and then President of the Hungarian National Bank MNB ( Magyar Nemzeti Bank ) from 1975 to 1988 .

Life

Gerber, party official and deputy finance minister

Tímár, the son of a manager and retailer, completed an apprenticeship as a tanner after attending elementary school in his hometown and was then initially between 1941 and 1942 a journeyman in the Sziebert Bőrgyár tannery in Baja and then in the Általános Bőrgyárban tannery in Mohács and subsequently since May 1943 with the Olimpia Bőrgyárban tannery in the IV. Budapest district of Ujpest, before he had to work as a slave laborer from April to December 1944. He then worked as a leather worker.

Tímár, the 1943 member of the Hungarian Social Democratic Party MSZDP (Magyarországi Szociáldemokrata Párt) and in 1945 the Communist Party of KMP (Kommunisták Magyarországi partja) joined, was established in early 1945 deputy head of training at the Hungarian Democratic Youth Association MÁDISZ (Magyar Demokratikus Ifjúsági Szövetség) and then in 1947 member of the youth secretariat of the KMP and between the end of 1947 and the beginning of 1949 employee in the Central Committee department for KMP cadres. In March 1949 became head of the public finance department in the Ministry of Finance. During this time he completed courses in law at the Eötvös-Loránd University in Budapest and then took on a lectureship in financial law at ELTE from 1950 to 1960 . At the same time he studied between 1951 and 1952 at the party college of the KMP.

In 1952 Tímár was head of the budget department in the Ministry of Finance before he was Deputy Minister of Finance from January 10, 1955 to January 31, 1957. He then took over again as head of the budget department in the Ministry of Finance and was then from August 6, 1960 to November 27, 1962 again Vice Minister of Finance.

Finance Minister, Vice Prime Minister and President of the National Bank

On November 28, 1962, Tímár was appointed Minister of Finance (Pénagyminiszter) in the government of Prime Minister János Kádár , replacing Rezső Nyers , who became Central Committee Secretary for Economy and later became the "father" of the Hungarian economic reforms between 1968 and 1973. He also held the post of finance minister in the government of Kádár's successor Gyula Kállai until April 14, 1967.

In addition to his ministerial office, he also took on an associate professorship at the Faculty of Economics at the Eötvös Loránd University in 1963 , where he first taught financial law and later economic management and analysis of economic policy after the end of the Second World War .

He was also on December 3, 1966 on the IX. Party Congress also elected a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the MSZMP, of which he was a member until March 27, 1985.

Thereafter, Tímár became deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers in the government of the new Prime Minister Jenő Fock on April 14, 1967 and held this function briefly in the government of his successor György Lázár until July 4, 1975. During this time he also held the position of chairman of the government's economic committee between 1967 and 1973. Furthermore, he became a member of the Committee for National Defense (Honvédelmi Bizottság) on April 14, 1967 and was a member of this until July 14, 1975. In his function as Vice-Prime Minister, he led a delegation to visit the Leipzig Trade Fair in February 1968 in order to negotiate economic issues in the GDR within the framework of the German-Hungarian Economic Committee.

In 1969 he received his doctorate in economics .

After leaving the government, he succeeded Andor László as President of the Hungarian National Bank MNB (Magyar Nemzeti Bank) on July 4, 1975 . Tímár held this position for almost thirteen years until he was replaced by Ferenc Bartha on June 15, 1988.

Publications

  • Gazdaságpolitika Magyarországon 1967-1973 , (1975)
  • Gazdasági egyensúly és pénzügyek (1983)
  • Szürke pénzügyek (1989)
  • A forint convertibilitásáról (1989)
  • Válság, váltás, változások 1979-1994 (1994)
  • A Magyar Nemzeti Bank története I-III. köt (1993-2004)
  • Jegyzetek az oldalvonalról 2000-2010 (2011)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meghalt Timár Mátyás, a Magyar Nemzeti Bank korábbi elnöke
  2. ↑ Chairpersons and members of the Council or Committee for National Defense ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Delegations from Hungary, DRV. SAR. Guinea arrived . In: Neues Deutschland from February 28, 1968
personal data
SURNAME Tímár, Mátyás
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian communist politician, university professor and bank manager
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Mohács , Baranya County
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 2020