Peter Veress

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Péter Veress (born June 1, 1928 in Gyimesközéplok , Harghita County , Transylvania , Romania ) is a former Hungarian diplomat and politician of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party MSZMP (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt) , who was ambassador to France from 1974 to 1979 and between 1979 and 1979 1987 was Minister of Foreign Trade.

Life

Coming from a poor farming family, Veress joined the state foreign trade company Technoimpex Külkereskedelmi Vállalat as a consultant in 1950 after studying at a state college for economics and trade (Üzemgazdasági és Kereskedelmi Főiskolá) , before moving to the foreign trade ministry in 1958. Shortly thereafter, in 1958, he became an employee at the commercial agency in Damascus and then head of the commercial agency in Tel Aviv-Jaffa . On his return in 1962 he was first deputy head and later head of a department in the Ministry of Foreign Trade.

After Veress was Vice Minister for Foreign Trade from March 15, 1971 to November 26, 1974, he received his accreditation as Ambassador of the People's Republic of Hungary to France and held this office until March 30, 1979.

On March 30, 1979, Veress was appointed Foreign Trade Minister (Külkereskedelmi Miniszter) to succeed József Bíró in the cabinet of Prime Minister György Lázár and held this position in the subsequent government of Prime Minister Károly Grósz until December 16, 1987. During this time he was on March 27, 1980 on the XII. Party Congress was elected a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the MSZMP and belonged to this until May 22, 1988. In his function as Foreign Trade Minister he visited the GDR several times during the Leipzig Autumn Fair , including in September 1979 for a conversation with the Minister for Foreign Trade of the GDR, Horst Sölle , and in September 1983 for a conversation with Werner Jarowinsky , candidate for the Politburo and Secretary of the Central Committee of the SED , as well as together with the Ambassador to the GDR , Béla Szalai , in September 1984.

After the dissolution of the previous ministries for foreign trade and domestic trade on December 16, 1987 and the associated merger to form a unified trade ministry, he served in the Grósz government until March 1988 as a commissioner in the trade ministry headed by József Marjai . He then remained an advisor to the Grosz government and from November 24, 1988 to May 23, 1990 also the government of Prime Minister Miklós Németh and also from 1989 to 1990 as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers (Világgazdasági Tanácsadó Testület) .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Encounters at the autumn fair . In: Neues Deutschland from September 3, 1979
  2. ^ Minister of Hungary visits Berlin . In: Neues Deutschland from September 10, 1983
  3. ↑ Maintain high dynamism in trade . In: Neues Deutschland from September 6, 1984
personal data
SURNAME Veress, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian communist politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Gyimesközéplok , Harghita County , Transylvania , Romania