Imre Oltványi (20 February 1893 – 13 January 1963) was a Hungarian politician, who served as

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in 1945 in the Interim National Government. He studied at the

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. Between 1920 and 1921 he was the secretary of the National Agriculture Association. He was a founding member of the Smallholders' Party. Towards the end of the

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he participated in resistant movements against the

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government. After the war he was appointed head of the

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. After his short ministership he served in this position again. Oltványi was member of the National Assembly between 1945 and 1947. He served as ambassador to

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between 1947 and 1948. After that he was the director of the

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until 1950 and of the Museum of Fine Arts until 1952.

References

Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon
1893 births 1963 deaths People from Bács-Kiskun County Finance ministers of Hungary Governors of the Hungarian National Bank Ambassadors of Hungary to Switzerland {{Hungary-politician-stub