Sándor Simonyi-Semadam

Sándor Simonyi-Semadam, 1920

Sándor Simonyi-Semadam (born March 23, 1864 in Csesznek , Austrian Empire , † June 4, 1946 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian lawyer, politician and banker.

Life

As a member of the Hungarian Christian Democratic Party, he first entered parliament in 1916. During the First World War he lost his son Sándor Simonyi-Semadam jr. He was arrested in 1919 during the communist regime of Béla Kun and was only released by accident.

Admiral Horthy , Reich Administrator in Hungary , appointed him Prime Minister in March 1920 and entrusted him with the management of the Foreign Ministry. During his tenure, the so-called “white counter-revolutionaries” were slowed down, the Trianon peace treaty was signed and elections were held in Tiszántúl (Transtheiß). Hungary lost two thirds of its territory and population.

After his tenure as Prime Minister - the shortest in Hungary - he got involved in finance. He was a member of the supervisory board of various banks and, among other things, president of the Hungarian Far East Association. His daughter Erzsébet Simonyi Semadam raised Ernő Simonyi, a well-known lawyer, and Károly Simonyi , nuclear physicist and university professor (father of Charles Simonyi ), as adopted children.

literature

• Simonyi-Semadam Sandor. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001-2005,ISBN 3-7001-3580-7, p. 287 f. (Direct links on p. 287 , p. 288 ).

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