Miklós Gimes

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Miklós Gimes. Grave on the Budapest Új köztemető (New Cemetery)

Miklós Gimes (born December 23, 1917 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; died June 16, 1958 in Budapest) was a Hungarian journalist and communist politician. He was executed after the Hungarian uprising in 1956 .

Life

Miklós Gime's parents were doctors and in 1919 were active supporters of the Hungarian Soviet Republic . The father Miklós Gimes was deported by the fascist Arrow Crossers in 1944 and died of typhus in Leitmeritz .

Miklós, his sister Juca and his mother Lilly Hajdu survived the Hungarian Holocaust thanks to a Swedish protection pass from Raoul Wallenberg . After the liberation of Hungary, they joined the Communist Party, which was transformed into the Party of the Hungarian Working People in 1949 . Gimes became editor of the newspaper "Szabad Nép". When Gimes journalistically and politically opposed the spread of Freud's teaching in Hungary in 1948 , he also opposed his father, who was training to be a psychoanalyst at the time, and his mother, who practiced as a psychoanalyst, who worked at the “State Institute for Neurology and Psychiatry “( Lipótmezö, 2nd District Budapest ) and was also elected to the board of the Hungarian Psychoanalytic Association. In February 1949 she had to dissolve it "voluntarily". In 1950, Gimes incurred the helpless wrath of Georg Lukács when he led a journalistic smear campaign against him.

Gimes was one of those who broke away from the Stalinist party discipline and in 1955 demanded the posthumous rehabilitation of László Rajk , which is why he was expelled from the communist party. In 1956 he was a supporter of Imre Nagy and published the newspaper “Magyar Szabadság” during the Hungarian uprising. After the crackdown, he was arrested on December 5, 1956. Together with Nagy and Pál Maléter he was in 1958 for treason sentenced to death and at the Budapest prison by the train executed. Gimes' wife Luci (1921–2008) with their seven-year-old son Miklós and the sister's family managed to escape to Switzerland. Lilly Hajdu lost her job in the clinic in 1957, and when she was repeatedly refused a visa for Switzerland, she committed suicide in 1960 .

At the beginning of the political change in Hungary in 1989, Gimes' grave and four other victims were reburied with the participation of several hundred thousand people. On October 6, 1989, the death sentence was overturned by a Hungarian court.

The son Miklos Gimes made a film for Swiss television in 2002 about his grandmother Lilly Hajdu-Gimes mother . In 2008, the politician Alíz Halda (1928–2008), with whom Gimes was friends, also died.

Fonts

  • Harcolunk a békéért a nemzetközi békemozgalom útja . Budapest: Hungaria Könyvnap, 1950
  • Adam Raffy: If Giordano Bruno had kept a diary . Translation to German. Budapest: Litteratura, 1956

literature

  • Paul Harmat: Freud, Ferenczi and the Hungarian Psychoanalysis . Tübingen: Edition Diskord, 1988 ISBN 3-89295-530-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Juca Magos-Gimes (1920-) at SWR
  2. ↑ Lilly Hajdu (1891-1960) with psychoanalysts in Hungary
  3. ^ Paul Harmat: Freud, Ferenczi and the Hungarian Psychoanalysis , p. 317
  4. ^ Paul Harmat: Freud, Ferenczi and the Hungarian Psychoanalysis , p. 311
personal data
SURNAME Gimes, Miklós
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian journalist and communist politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1958
Place of death Budapest