Mihály Korom

Mihály Korom (born October 9, 1927 in Mindszent , Csongrád county , † October 3, 1993 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, among other things, Central Committee Secretary for Administration, Minister of Justice. On the XII. Party Congress on March 27, 1980 he was elected a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the MSZMP and belonged to this top management body of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until the XIII. Party Congress on May 28, 1985.

Life

Police officer, party official and commander of the border troops

Korom, the son of a farm laborer, left elementary school after the sixth grade and then worked as a farmhand on a farm in his native Mindszent. In March 1945 he joined the Communist Party KMP (Kommunisták Magyarországi Pártja) and in July 1945 in the police service. In the following years he worked as a policeman for the political police in Mindzent and then in the small area of ​​Kiskunfélegyháza before he became a lieutenant in the police after attending the police academy in 1948 and as such was deputy commander of the central police training battalion in Budapest until 1950.

After graduating from the MDP party college in Budapest, he became an employee in the party headquarters in 1951, where he had worked in the personnel department from 1954 and in the organization department from 1955. After the popular uprising , between November and December 1956, he acted as deputy commander of the bodyguard of Prime Minister János Kádár and, after studying at the CPSU party college in Moscow in July 1958, initially worked for a short time in the Central Committee department for party and government Mass organizations of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party MSZMP (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt) , which emerged from the MDP , before he was then, with the rank of colonel in the Ministry of Interior, head of a department that dealt with the investigation and clarification of the circumstances of the popular uprising. He also completed a law degree at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), from which he graduated in 1959 with a doctorate in law .

On August 9, 1960, Korom was appointed commander of the border troops (Határőrség Magyarországon) of the Ministry of the Interior and promoted to major general. During this time he was elected on November 24, 1962 at the Eighth Party Congress first as a candidate and later on December 5, 1963 as a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the MSZMP.

Central Committee Secretary, Justice Minister and Member of Parliament

At the same time he became Central Committee Secretary for Administration in December 1963 and as such was responsible for the supervision of the Hungarian Armed Forces (Magyar Honvédség) until November 1966 .

Subsequently, on April 7, 1966, he was appointed Minister of Justice (Igazságügy-Miniszter) in the government of Prime Minister Gyula Kállai . He also held this ministerial office under Kállai's successors Jenő Fock and György Lázár until December 22, 1978. In addition, from 1972 to 1980 he was a member of the National Council of the Patriotic Popular Front (Hazafias Népfront) , in which the mass organizations, social and cultural organizations were the umbrella organization of the People's Republic of Hungary.

After leaving the government on December 22, 1978, he was again Secretary of the MSZMP Central Committee for Administration and held this party office until March 1985. The hardliner Korom was responsible for the party's cadre policy and for the socialist mass organizations.

On the XII. Party Congress on March 27, 1980 he was elected a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the MSZMP and belonged to this top management body of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until the XIII. Party Congress on May 28, 1985. At the same time was from 1980 to 1985 chairman of the MSZMP commission for physical education and sport.

In addition, he was elected for the first time on June 8, 1980 Member of Parliament (Országgyűlés) and represented the 8th constituency of Bács-Kiskun County until May 1989 .

After leaving the Politburo and the Central Committee Secretariat, he served as a member of the Constitutional Law Council (Alkotmányjogi Tanács) between 1985 and 1988 .

Web links

• Entry in Történelmi Tár (Hungarian)
• Entry in the Munzinger archive (top of the online version)