Tamás Beck

Tamás Beck (born February 26, 1929 in Budapest ; † August 20, 2014 there ) was a Hungarian economic manager and politician of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party , who was Minister of Trade between 1988 and 1990, among other things.

Life

After attending school, Beck worked as a technician at Magyar Kender, Len és Jutagyárban , a company for processing flax fibers and hemp between 1948 and 1951 . He also studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Budapest and from 1950 to 1951 at the Technical University of Prague , which he graduated as an engineer in 1951 .

Beck then worked for a year as a teaching assistant and lecturer at the Technical University of Budapest before moving to the Ministry of Light Industry in 1952, where he worked as a group leader and deputy head of the technical department.

In 1963 he switched to industry and was chief engineer at the spinning and weaving company Szegedi Kenderfonó és Szövőipari Vállalat until 1970 and then until 1971 technical director of the Institute for the Organization of Light Industry. He then studied at Princeton University between 1971 and 1973 on a government scholarship . On November 1, 1973 he was appointed general manager of the Budaflax Lenfonó és Szövőipari Vállalat textile company ; he held this position until 1988. He also taught between 1982 and 1988 as an honorary professor at the Technical University of Budapest.

Beck, who had joined the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party MSZMP (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt) in 1976 , was elected a member of the party's economic policy committee in 1985 and a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the MSZMP on June 23, 1987 .

On October 5, 1988 Beck was appointed Minister of Commerce in his cabinet by Prime Minister Miklós Németh and held this ministerial office until the end of Németh's term of office on May 23, 1990.

Web links

• Elhunyt Beck Tamás egykori miniszter . In: mno.hu from August 21, 2014 (page accessed on August 25, 2014)