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Presidential Council Of The Hungarian People's Republic
The Presidential Council of the Hungarian People's Republic was the collective head of state of Hungary during the Communist era. It was created in 1949, following the enactment of a new constitution that year that officially created the People's Republic of Hungary. Originally vested with broad powers during the interim of parliamentary sessions, its jurisdiction was limited throughout the moderate liberalization witnessed during the Kadar era. Along with the state itself, it was abolished on 23 October 1989. The Parliament of Hungary, upon the recommendation of the Presidential Council, elected and relieved the chairman and ministers of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic of their duties. List of chairmen of the Presidential Council ''Parties List of vice-chairmen of the Presidential Council Two vice presidents served simultaneously. They were deputy heads of state. {, , - style="vertical-align:top" , {, class="wikitable" ! Name ! Peri ...
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President Of Hungary
The president of Hungary, officially the president of the republicUnder the Constitution of Hungary, Basic Law, adopted in 2011, the official name of the state is simply Hungary; Before, the state was called the Republic of Hungary. However, the office is nonetheless referred to as the ''president of the republic'' even under the Basic Law, though in a sense of "the president of the republic who presides over Hungary", rather than "the president who presides over the Republic of Hungary". ( hu, Magyarország köztársasági elnöke, ''államelnök'', or ''államfő''), is the head of state of Hungary. The office has a largely ceremonial (figurehead) role, but may also veto power, veto legislation or send legislation to the Constitutional Court of Hungary, Constitutional Court for review. Most other executive powers, such as selecting Government of Hungary, government ministers and leading legislative initiatives, are vested in the office of the Prime minister of Hungary, prime m ...
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Dobi István 1948-06
Dobi is a family name ( surname) originating in Hungary. It is mostly prevalent in Hungary, Albania, Serbia and the United States. Etymology The surname may originate from the Hungarian personal name ''Dabó'' (Transylvanian form ''Dobó''), or from a pet form of the personal name ''Dob''. Another theory on the origin of the Dobi surname may be as a diminutive of the Saxon personal name ''Hrodebert'' (ancient form of the English name ''Robert''). Dobi surname in Albania The Dobi surname in Albania is found among members of the same family, which originates from the region of Gjirokastra, and nowadays hails primarily in the capital city of Tirana, but a large number of them have settled in other countries, such as Turkey or the United States. History The main branch of the Dobi family in Albania is considered to be one of the oldest families of the medieval city of Gjirokastra and it is believed that they had first settled in the citadel inside the Castle of Gjiro ...
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Dániel Nagy (politician)
Dániel Nagy may refer to: * Dániel Nagy (footballer, born 1984), Hungarian football right winger for BFC Siófok * Dániel Nagy (footballer, born 1991) Dániel Nagy (born 15 March 1991) is a Hungarian football midfielder. Club statistics Hamburger SV He was signed from Hungarian Újpest FC in 2007, In 2008, he signed a professional contract with Hamburger SV. He played mainly for the reser ..., football midfielder for Újpest and Hungary * Dániel Nagy (racing driver) (born 1998), Hungarian racing driver {{hndis, Nagy, Daniel ...
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István Sarlós
István Sarlós (30 October 1921 – 19 June 2006) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary between 1984 and 1988. Sarlós was born in Budapest. His parents (István Scheithauer, later Sarlós and Erzsébet Till) were members of the Social Democratic Party and had been since 1922. His father was deported by members of the Arrow Cross Party because of his participation in the rebel movements. He died in the Dachau concentration camp in 1944. Sarlós' brother, Ferenc, held the position of Chief of the Budapest District XVII ( Rákosmente) Police. He became a member of the National Assembly of Hungary in 1963, and remained a member until 1990. In 1966 Sarlós was appointed member of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party. He also held the position of deputy chairman of the National Council of the Patriotic People's Front. He was the chief editor of the newspaper ''Népszabadság ''Népszabadság'' (; means " ...
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Sándor Gáspár (politician)
Sándor Gáspár (15 April 1917 – 16 April 2002) was a Hungarian communist politician and trade unionist. Born in Pánd, Gáspár worked as a mechanic, and in 1935 joined the Metalworkers' Trade Union. The following year, he joined the Hungarian Social Democratic Party, then in 1940, the Hungarian Communist Party (HCP). In 1945, he was elected to the trade union's leadership, and as an organiser for the HCP in the sixth district of Budapest. He rapidly rose to prominence, winning election to the HCP's Central Committee in 1946, and then in 1947 winning election to Parliament. That year, he was also appointed as deputy general secretary of the metalworkers' union. In 1948, the HCP was merged with the Social Democratic Party, to form the Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP), and he continued on the Central Committee. In 1950, he became general secretary of the metalworkers, and he spent some time studying at the Higher Party School in Moscow, in 1951/52. On his ret ...
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György Marosán
György () is a Hungarian version of the name ''George''. Some notable people with this given name: * György Alexits, as a Hungarian mathematician * György Almásy, Hungarian asiologist, traveler, zoologist and ethnographer, father of László Almásy * György Apponyi, Hungarian politician * György Gordon Bajnai, Prime Minister of Hungary (2009-10) * György Bálint (originally surname Braun; 1919–2020), Hungarian horticulturist, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, journalist, author, and politician who served as an MP. * György Bárdy, Hungarian film and television actor * György Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine * György Bessenyei, Hungarian playwright and poet * György Bródy, Hungarian water polo goalkeeper, 2x Olympic champion * György Bulányi, Hungarian a Piarist priest, teacher, and leader * György Carabelli, Hungarian dentist * György Csányi, Hungarian athlete * György Cserhalmi, Hungarian act ...
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József Révai
József Révai (born József Lederer'';'' 12 October 1898 in Budapest – 4 August 1959 in Budapest) was a Hungarian communist politician, statesman and cultural ideologue. Life and career Révai was born to a Jewish family.Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1945–56, 2012, , p. 144 He was one of the founders of the Communist Party of Hungary ''(Kommunisták Magyarországi Pártja; KMP)'' in 1918. Révai lived in the Soviet Union between 1934 and 1944. From 11 May to 27 September 1945 he was a member of the High National Council, and between 1945 and 1950 he was chief editor of ''Szabad Nép'' ("Free People"). Révai controlled all aspects of Hungary's cultural life from 1948 until 1953; from 1949 he was also the Minister of Culture. After 1953 his influence decreased. Between 1945–1956 he was a member of the Central Committee of his party, which was renamed in 1948 to Hungarian Working People's Party ''(Magyar Dolgozók Pártja; MDP)'' after mer ...
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István Kovács (politician)
István Kovács (24 October 1911 – 23 December 2011) was a Hungarian Communist politician who served in the Political Committee of the Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) and as a member of the Presidential Council of the People's Republic of Hungary which functioned as collective head of state in Hungary from 1949 to 1989. He was born in Ditró (now Ditrău, Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...). References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kovacs, Istvan 1911 births 2011 deaths People from Harghita County People from the Kingdom of Hungary Hungarian Communist Party politicians Members of the Hungarian Working People's Party Members of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1945–1947) Members of the National Ass ...
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Károly Kiss
Károly Kiss (24 September 1903 – 3 December 1983) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1951 and 1952. He was a member of the Communist Party of Hungary The Hungarian Communist Party ( hu, Magyar Kommunista Párt, abbr. MKP), known earlier as the Party of Communists in Hungary ( hu, Kommunisták Magyarországi Pártja, abbr. KMP), was a communist party in Hungary that existed during the interwar ... since 1922. He was imprisoned for nine years because of his illegal communist activities until 1944. After that he participated in the guerrilla movements against the fascist forces. After the ministership he served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1953. References Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon 1903 births 1983 deaths People from Bicske People from the Kingdom of Hungary Social Democratic Party of Hungary politicians Hungarian Communist Party politicians Members of the Hungarian Working People's Party Members of the Hungarian ...
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Brunó Ferenc Straub
Brunó Ferenc Straub (5 January 1914 in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary (now Oradea, Romania) – 15 February 1996) was a biochemist. As a young scholar he was a research assistant of Albert Szent-Györgyi at the University of Szeged, and subsequently worked at the Molteno Institute, Cambridge, UK. He is credited with the discovery of actin. He founded the Biological Research Centre in Szeged. He was the chairman of the Hungarian Presidential Council from 29 June 1988 to 23 October 1989. He proposed the theory of conformational selection in 1964; the same year the MWC model In biochemistry, the Monod-Wyman-Changeux model (MWC model, also known as the symmetry model) describes allosteric transitions of proteins made up of identical subunits. It was proposed by Jean-Pierre Changeux in his PhD thesis, and described by ... was proposed. External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Straub, Bruno Ferenc 1914 births 1996 deaths People from Oradea Members of the National Assembly of ...
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Straub F
Straub is a Germanic surname that literally means "one with bushy or bristly hair". Its original meaning in Middle High German is "rough" or "unkempt". It may also refer to people who come from Straubing in Germany. Spelling variations of Straub include '' Straube, Strauber, Straubinger, Strauble, Strob, Strobel, Strube, Strub, Strufe, Struwe, and Struwing.'' The first known Straub in the United States was Johannes Straub, one of the Palatine Germans brought to New York in 1710. There were later arrivals, especially in the Pennsylvania Deutsch region and Ohio, most with an origin in Baden-Württemberg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Rhineland-Palatinate, Bavaria, Austria, the German cantons of Switzerland, and Alsace-Lorraine. Some Straubs who had earlier migrated east out of Germany, settling in German enclaves in Russia and Austria-Hungary (now Romania), have subsequently immigrated to the U.S. as well. There were two notable breweries founded in Pennsylvania by Straub immigra ...
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Károly Németh (politician)
Károly Németh (14 December 1922 – 12 March 2008) was a Hungarian political figure born in Páka. He served as the chairman of the Hungarian Presidential Council from 25 June 1987 to 29 June 1988. Biography He began his labor activity as a worker in the food industry. He has been a member of the Hungarian Communist Party since 1945. After graduating from the Higher Party School, from 1954 — secretary, first secretary of the party cell in the Chongrad media center (until 1959). From 1957 — member of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (HSWP), in 1960-1965 — head of the agricultural department of the HSWP Central Committee, from 1966 — a candidate, and from November 1970-1989 — a member of the Politburo of the HSWP Central Committee. In 1962-1965 and from March 1974-1985 — secretary of the HSWP Central Committee. In June 1965-1974 he was also the first secretary of the Budapest City Committee of the HSWP. For 30 years, from 195 ...
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