Miklós Óvári

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Miklós Óvári (* 24. August 1925 in Soroksárpéteri , Pestszentlőrinc , Budapest ; † 10. May 2003 in Budapest) was a Hungarian politician of the Communist Party KMP (Kommunisták Magyarországi partja) , Hungarian Working People's Party MDP (Magyar Dolgozók partja) and finally the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party MSZMP (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt) , which was among other things the secretary of the MSZMP Central Committee for many years. On the XI. Party Congress on March 22, 1975 he was elected a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the MSZMP and was a member of this top management body of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until May 22, 1988.

Life

Studies and party official

Coming from a family of intellectuals, Óvári began studying history at the Péter Pázmány Catholic University after attending grammar school in Pestszentlőrinc, graduating in 1948 with a teaching degree. During his studies he joined the Communist Party KMP (Kommunisták Magyarországi Pártja) in 1945 and, after graduating, attended the party college of the MDP, where he himself became a lecturer in 1954.

Shortly afterwards, in 1954, he began studying at the party college of the CPSU in Moscow and, after his return to Hungary in 1957, resumed teaching at the party college of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party MSZMP (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt) , which had now emerged from the MDP , before joining the Changed party headquarters as an employee of the Central Committee's department for agitation and propaganda and became deputy head of department there in 1961. During this time he was on the VIII. Party Congress on November 24, 1962 to the candidate and on the IX. Party Congress on December 3, 1966 elected a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the MSZMP, of which he was a member until May 22, 1988.

From December 3, 1966 to November 28, 1970 he was head of the Central Committee Department for Science, Culture and Education and at the same time had been a member of the Committee for Agitation and Propaganda of the MSZMP since 1966, in which he was also head of the Working group for cultural policy was.

Central Committee Secretary, Politburo Member and Member of Parliament

From the Xth Party Congress on November 28, 1970 to the XIII. Party Congress on May 22, 1985 Óvári acted as Central Committee secretary for ideology and then until May 22, 1988 as head of the Politburo office with the rank of Central Committee secretary. In addition to György Aczél , he was largely responsible for the cultural life of Hungary, but also for the country's church politics.

On June 10, 1979, elected Member of Parliament (Országgyűlés) for the first time and was a member of this until his resignation on June 29, 1988. He initially represented the constituency of Budapest No. 28, then since June 8, 1980 the constituency of Budapest No. 29 and most recently since June 8, 1985 the reserve list of the Patriotic Popular Front (Hazafias Népfront) . During his membership in parliament, he served as secretary of the MSZMP parliamentary group from 1985 to October 1988 . In July 1988 he became a member of the Science Policy Committee of the MSZMP.

Publications

  • Hazafiság és nemzetköziség (1968)
  • Történelem, ideológia, kultúra (1980)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ödön Lénard, Ágnes Tímar, Gyula Szabó, Viktor Attila Soós: Ways and aberrations of the Catholic Church of Hungary in the time of the persecution by the communists , 2009, p. 382, ISBN 3-86805-405-7
personal data
SURNAME Óvári, Miklós
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian communist politician, member of parliament
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Soroksárpéteri, Pestszentlőrinc-Pestszentimre , Budapest
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2003
Place of death Budapest