Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám de Dancka (10 July 1875 – 25 July 1973)Profile of Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám
/ref> was a conservative Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister and temporary Minister of Finance of the second counter-revolutionary government in

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for one month in 1919. His government commissioned

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to Supreme Commander of the National Army.

Biography

He was born to an ancient

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family. The Pattantyús family used the "Ábrahám" name from the 17th century.

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donated to them the "danckai" title of nobility. His parents were László Ábrahám and Erzsébet Király. His younger brother was the writer

Ernő Pattantyús-Ábrahám Ernő Pattantyús-Ábrahám de Dancka (15 March 1882, Debrecen - 7 May 1945, Budapest) was a Hungarian journalist and writer. During the Second World War he published many antifascist articles against the Nazi Germany. His older brother was ...

. He was a member of the

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between 1906 and 1918 as representative of Karcag. He was appointed state secretary of the Ministry of Justice in the cabinet of

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. He negotiated about the national minorities' emancipation with the

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n national leaders in Arad as a member of the committee which was led by Oszkár Jászi. During the

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he moved to

. He was the Prime Minister of the third counter-revolutionary government. His government commissioned

to Supreme Commander of the National Army. During the

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cabinet he served as state secretary of the Ministry of the Interior. After that he temporarily retired from politics. Pattantyús-Ábrahám worked as a

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between 1920 and 1944. He entered the elections repeatedly unsuccessfully in these times. On November 1944 the

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members interned to Sopronkőhida then

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. He returned home in 1945. After his returning he founded the Hungarian Freedom Party. He became a member of the National Assembly again in 1947, after an almost thirty-year gap. According to sources he was branded as a right-wing extremist and was excluded from the party in 1949. He resigned from his parliamentary seat. He retired from politics in this same year. He was interned to

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in 1951. He was overheared and warned in 1957, because he took part in the re-foundation of the Freedom Party during the

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. He worked as a lawyer until 1958. He had connections with American and English

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s, as a result the police authorities warned him again in 1967. Two years before his death the Hungarian intelligence agencies stopped his observation. Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám died in Budapest at the age of 98.

References

External links

Biography of Dezső Ábrahám
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pattantyus-Abraham, Dezso 1875 births 1973 deaths Politicians from Uzhhorod People from the Kingdom of Hungary Independent Hungarian Democratic Party politicians Prime Ministers of Hungary Members of the Diet of Hungary Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1947–1949) Hungarian anti-communists