Attila Kálmán (22 October 1938 – 28 October 2015)
was a Hungarian educator and politician, who served as Political Secretary of State for Education between 1991 and 1994. He was also a
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Tata
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Places
* Jamshedpur, a city in Jharkhand, India also known as Tatanagar or Tata
* Tata, Hungary, a town in Hungary
* Tata Islands, a pair of small islands off the coast of New Zealand
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(
Komárom-Esztergom County
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Constituency II) from 1990 to 1994.
He was a founding member of the
Hungarian Democratic Forum
The Hungarian Democratic Forum ( hu, Magyar Demokrata Fórum, MDF) was a centre-right political party in Hungary. It had a Hungarian nationalist, national-conservative, Christian-democratic ideology. The party was represented continuously in th ...
(MDF). After the
1990 parliamentary election, he worked in the Committee on Human Rights, Minorities and Religious Affairs from 1990 until 1991, when he was appointed Secretary of State under
Minister of Education Bertalan Andrásfalvy then
Ferenc Mádl
Ferenc Mádl (; 29 January 1931 – 29 May 2011)
* : Collar of the Order of Merit (25 September 2002).
References
External links
His biography at the website of the Office of the President of the Republic of HungaryRetrieved 2011-05-30 ...
.
He had an important role in the restitution of the formerly nationalized educational institutions by the Communist regime to the Christian and other churches.
Following the failure
1994 parliamentary election, Kálmán left MDF in that year.
He served as General Superintendent of the Transdanubian Reformed Church District between 1990 and 2002. He was also Secular Chairman of the General Synod of the
Reformed Church in Hungary
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from 1997 to 2003.
Kálmán died on 28 October 2015, aged 77.
Elhunyt Kálmán Attila
References
1938 births
2015 deaths
Hungarian educators
Hungarian Democratic Forum politicians
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1990–1994)
Politicians from Budapest
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