Zoltán Rónai

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Hungarian council government 1919.
Rónai in the fourth row

Zoltán Rónai (born August 16, 1880 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; died May 17, 1940 in Brussels ) was Minister of Justice of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919.

Life

Zoltán Rónai was of Jewish origin, the family name Rosenthal of his parents was Magyarized . He received his doctorate in law and wrote as a journalist for the daily newspaper Népszava of the Hungarian Social Democratic Party (MSZDP). Your editors-in-chief were Ernő Garami (1876-1935) and Zsigmond Kunfi (1879-1929), whose political course Rónai supported.

When the first republican government of Hungary under Mihály Károlyi resigned after the end of the First World War , Kunfi ensured Rónai's entry into the Revolutionary Council of the Hungarian Socialist Soviet Republic as Justice Commissioner on June 24, 1919 . The council government of Béla Kun was driven out of Budapest by Romanian troops in August 1919. Rónai escaped arrest and fled to Austria. In Vienna, Rónai worked for the Two and a Half Socialist International and wrote under the pseudonym Zoltán Vándor in the Hungarian magazine Szocializmus . In addition to Vienna, he also stayed in Paris and Brussels.

After Austria was annexed to the German Reich in 1938, he fled to Brussels . During the German occupation of Belgium in 1940, Rónai committed suicide.

His nephew Gyula Márton Pereszlenyi had also fled Vienna to Brussels. He came to Great Britain, where after the war he achieved prominence under the name of Martin Esslin as a radio editor for the BBC and theater theorist.

Fonts

  • Siegmund Kunfi: Figures and Events. - The reshaping of the world. Selected essays. Published by Julius Braunthal. With a picture of Kunfi's life by Zoltan Ronai. 2 volumes. Vienna, Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, 1930 DNB

literature

  • János Jemnitz: Les activités journalistiques de Zoltán Rónai après 1919 . Acta Historica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 31 (3-4), 1985, pp. 373-408
  • János Jemnitz: The Hungarian-language contributions by Zoltan Ronai on the international labor movement and world politics (1920-1937) . in: Helmut Konrad, Wolfgang Neugebauer (Hrsg.): Workers' Movement-Fascism-National Consciousness . Vienna: Europaverlag, 1983. pp. 7–9, 37–44, 434–436.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry by Rónai Zoltán in: Magyar Életrajzi Lexicon
personal data
SURNAME Rónai, Zoltan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian socialist politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1940
Place of death Brussels