Béla Székely (Born. as Béla Weisz
[Decree No 51814. of 1902 of the Royal Hungarian Ministry of the Interior. MNL-OL 30806. microfilm 576. fig. Name change statements 1902. year 43. page 35. line 35.] 17 July 1889 – 10 January 1939) was a
Hungarian politician, who served as
Minister of Finance
A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation.
A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", " ...
in 1919 (until 24 June with
Gyula Lengyel
Gyula Lengyel (born Gyula Goldstein;The number and year of the Ministry of Interior Decree containing the license are: 82212/1903. MNL-OL 30799. Microfilm Image 1006. 1. Carton, Name Change Statements in 1903, p. 14 Row 18 8 October 1888 – 8 ...
). After the fall of the
Hungarian Soviet Republic he emigrated to
Austria
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. From 1930, Székely worked in Berlin later lived in the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
. In 1938 he was arrested and executed during the
Great Purge
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.
References
Sources
Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon
1889 births
1939 deaths
Jewish Hungarian politicians
Politicians from Budapest
Hungarian communists
Finance ministers of Hungary
Great Purge victims from Hungary
Hungarian emigrants to the Soviet Union
Executed communists
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