Gaszton Gaál de Gyula (or Gaal) (30 November 1868 – 26 October 1932) was a Hungarian landowner, ornithologist and politician, who served as
Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary between 1921 and 1922.
Postings
Gaál was a member of the
Diet of Hungary session from 1906 to 1910. During the
Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919) his lands were nationalized. An arrest warrant issued against him in May, and he went into hiding in
Somogy County
Somogy ( hu, Somogy megye, ; hr, Šomođska županija; sl, Šomodska županija, german: Komitat Schomodei) is an administrative county (comitatus or ''megye'') in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary.
Somogy County lies ...
and
Zala County. After the fall of the Soviet regime, he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Somogy County by the government of
István Friedrich. He resigned in 1920 from this position.
He became a member of the
National Assembly
In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...
in 1920 with the National Smallholders' Party. After the resignation of
István Rakovszky
István Rakovszky de Nagyrákó et Nagyselmecz (18 June 1858 – 12 August 1931) was a legitimist Hungarian politician. During the Second Royal ''coup d'état'', Charles IV returned to Hungary to retake his throne. The attempt was unsuccessf ...
, he was nominated for the post of
Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary. His party merged with the KNEP in 1922, and he joined the newly formed
Unity Party. However, he soon quit over the tax measures planned by the cabinet of
István Bethlen
Count István Bethlen de Bethlen (8 October 1874, Gernyeszeg – 5 October 1946, Moscow) was a Hungarian aristocrat and statesman and served as prime minister from 1921 to 1931.
Early life
The scion of an old Bethlen de Bethlen noble fam ...
and became an independent MP.
He and three other representatives founded the Agrarian Party and became a deputy again. His organisation merged into the
Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party (FKGP) in 1930, becoming its second leader.
Marriage and children
He married Jozefin Cecilia Gabriella Rozália Chernel de Chernelház (January 29, 1880 - June 18, 1908) on January 29, 1898 in
Ötvöskónyi
Ötvöskónyi ( hr, Otoš / Kunja) is a village in Somogy county, Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the ...
. They had three children:
* Olivér Lőrinc Gyula Gaál de Gyula (February 1, 1899 - January 21, 1955) who married Eszter Kacskovics de Daruvár.
* Olga Gaál de Gyula (1900 - July 11, 1915)
* Márta Gaál de Gyula who married Gusztáv Sziberth.
Death
Gaszton Gaál died in
Balatonboglár after a short illness.
Works
Gaál Gaszton: Adalékok a madárvonulás kutatásához(MEK)
References
Gaszton Gaál Biography by Károly Jónás
1868 births
1932 deaths
Hungarian ornithologists
Speakers of the National Assembly of Hungary
Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party politicians
Hungarian landowners
19th-century landowners
20th-century landowners
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