Péter Vályi

Péter Vályi (born December 25, 1919 in Szombathely , † September 18, 1973 in Miskolc ) was a Hungarian chemical engineer, politician and finance minister.

Life

He studied at the Technical and Economic University of Budapest ( Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem ) and graduated there in 1942 as a chemical engineer. He first worked in a pharmaceutical plant and then as head of the research laboratory in a leather factory in Simontornya . In January 1945 he was briefly detained on charges of communist propaganda. At the same time, his parents were interned by the Arrow Cross members . After the end of the war he became a member of the Hungarian Communist Party ( MKP ). From 1948 he worked for the state planning authority and in the next few years worked at the same time first as an assistant and then as a lecturer in the study of economics in Budapest . In 1954 he was appointed deputy chairman of the state planning authority, in which he worked until 1967. From 1967 to 1971 he was the successor to Mátyás Tímár Minister of Finance in the Jenő Fock government . In November 1970 he was elected a member of the Central Committee at the 10th Congress of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party ( MSZMP ) and in 1971 was appointed deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers. He was also the permanent representative of Hungary on the Council for Mutual Economic Aid .

Vályi died in a tragic incident during a tour of the Lenin Metallurgical Plant ( Lenin Kohászati ​​Művek ) in Miskolc-Diósgyőr .

literature

• Máté Fábián: A Vályi Péter-eset . In: Historia nostra: történelmi folyóirat . Historia Nostra Alapítvány, Eger 2013. ISSN  2064-325X

Web links

• Vályi Péter , in Magyar Életrajzi Lexicon ( Hungarian )
• Vályi Péter , in Történelmi Tár (Hungarian)