Jenő Landler (November 23, 1875 – February 25, 1928) was a Hungarian politician and socialist leader. Born in to a Jewish family, he studied to be a lawyer and was drawn to the Social Democratic Party through his involvement in the ironworker's

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movement. However, he kept moving politically to the left and became a Communist. After the

Hungarian Revolution of 1919 The Socialist Federative Republic of Councils in Hungary ( hu, Magyarországi Szocialista Szövetséges Tanácsköztársaság) (due to an early mistranslation, it became widely known as the Hungarian Soviet Republic in English-language sources ( ...

, he became people's commissar of interior affairs in the new communist government. He was also a commander of the Hungarian Red Army fighting the foreign troops of the interventionists. After the fall of the

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he emigrated to

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where he continued to be a leader of the exiled Hungarian communist movement. Jenő Landler died in 1928 in exile in

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. His ashes were brought to

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and placed in the

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wall.

References

External links

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979)
* 1875 births 1928 deaths People from Zala County Jewish Hungarian politicians Jewish socialists Social Democratic Party of Hungary politicians Hungarian Interior Ministers Hungarian revolutionaries Hungarian people of the Hungarian–Romanian War Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis Hungarian communists {{Hungary-politician-stub Hungarian emigrants to Austria Hungarian emigrants to France