István Komáromi (2 December 1943 – 7 January 2016)
was a Hungarian agronomist and politician, who was a
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Kunszentmiklós (
Bács-Kiskun County
Bács-Kiskun ( hu, Bács-Kiskun megye, ) is a county (''megye'' in Hungarian) located in southern Hungary. It was created as a result of World War II, merging the prewar Bács-Bodrog and the southern parts of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun counties. Wit ...
Constituency IV) between 1994 and 1998.
Biography
He was born into a wealthy
Calvinist merchant family in
Kolozsvár, then part of the
Kingdom of Hungary (today
Cluj-Napoca
; hu, kincses város)
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Romania). He had also
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roots on maternal side. After the
World War II, when Cluj returned to Romania in accordance with the
Paris Peace Treaties
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The Paris Peace Conference lasted from 29 July until 15 October 1946. The victorious wartime Allied powers (princi ...
, the family moved to Hungary. There his father, László Komáromi was arrested on charges of conspiracy against the state in 1949.
István Komáromi finished his elementary and secondary studies in Kunszentmiklós, then studied at the Agricultural Technical Advanced School in
Kiskunhalas
Kiskunhalas (; german: Hallasch) is a city in the county of Bács-Kiskun, Hungary.
Railroad
The city is an important railway junction. It crosses the Budapest-Subotica-Belgrade railway line. The Kiskunfélegyháza railway ends in Kiskunhalas.
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between 1964 and 1966. He received agricultural engineer degree at the University of Agricultural Sciences in
Keszthely (today belonged to the
University of Pannonia
The University of Pannonia (''University of Veszprém'' until March 1, 2006; Hungarian ''Pannon Egyetem'', formerly known as ''Veszprémi Egyetem'') is a university located in Veszprém, Hungary. It was founded in 1949 and is organized in five ...
) in 1970. Until 1990, he worked for several
collective farms
Collective farming and communal farming are various types of, "agricultural production in which multiple farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise". There are two broad types of communal farms: agricultural cooperatives, in which member- ...
in
Dunavecse, Kunszentmiklós and
Soltvadkert
Soltvadkert (german: Wadkert; hr, Vakier; yi, וואדקערט) is a town in Bács-Kiskun county in Hungary with approximately 8,000 inhabitants. The former name of the town is ''Vadkert''. It is surrounded by several areas of the Kiskunság Na ...
. In 1982 and 1985, he received the honor of Excellent Worker of Agriculture.
Komáromi joined the Communist ruling
Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSZMP) in 1975.
During the
democratic transition process in Hungary, he left the party in 1988 and did not join immediately the newly formed
Hungarian Socialist Party
The Hungarian Socialist Party ( hu, Magyar Szocialista Párt), commonly known by its acronym MSZP, is a centre-left social-democratic and pro-European political party in Hungary.
It was founded on 7 October, 1989 as a post-communist evolution a ...
(MSZP),
legal successor of the MSZMP. He ran as a non-partisan candidate in Kunszentmiklós during the 1990 local elections and was elected to the town's representative body. Following that he was appointed deputy mayor of Kunszentmiklós. In 1993, already as a member of the MSZP, he run as a candidate in the parliamentary by-election in Kunszentmiklós, but defeated by
Tamás Gábor Nagy (
ASZ) and came to the second place.
A year later, he was elected MP during the
1994 parliamentary election, representing Kunszentmiklós between 1994 and 1998. He was a member of the Committee on Agriculture during that time. In the 1994 local elections, he was re-elected to the representative body of Kunszentmiklós again.
He retired from politics in 1998 due to his wife, Mária Szappanos' poor health (they married in 1975 and they had a son, István, Jr.). Komáromi died on 7 January 2016, only six days after his wife's death.
Mély fájdalommal búcsúzunk Komáromi Istvántól
mszp.hu
References
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1943 births
2016 deaths
Hungarian agronomists
Members of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Hungarian Socialist Party politicians
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1994–1998)
Politicians from Cluj-Napoca