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
The Diet of Hungary or originally: Parlamentum Publicum / Parlamentum Generale () was the most important political assembly in Hungary since the 12th century, which emerged to the position of the supreme legislative institution in the Kingdom ...
session from 1906 to 1910. During the
Hungarian Soviet Republic
The Hungarian Soviet Republic, also known as the Socialist Federative Soviet Republic of Hungary was a short-lived communist state that existed from 21 March 1919 to 1 August 1919 (133 days), succeeding the First Hungarian Republic. The Hungari ...
(1919) his lands were nationalized. An arrest warrant issued against him in May, and he went into hiding in
Somogy County
Somogy (, ; ; , ) is an administrative county (Counties of Hungary, comitatus or ''vármegye'') in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary.
Somogy County lies in south-western Hungary, on the border with Croatia's Koprivnica- ...
and
Zala County
Zala (, ; ; ) is an administrative county (Counties of Hungary, comitatus or ''vármegye'') in south-western Hungary. It is named after the Zala River. It shares borders with Croatia (Koprivnica–Križevci County, Koprivnica–Križevci and Me� ...
. 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 repr ...
in 1920 with the National Smallholders' Party. After the resignation of
István Rakovszky, 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 – 5 October 1946) was a Hungarians, Hungarian Aristocracy (class), aristocrat and politician, statesman and served as prime minister from 1921 to 1931.
Early life
The scion of an old Bethlen ...
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
The Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party (), known mostly by its acronym FKgP or its shortened form Independent Smallholders' Party (), is a political party in Budapest, Hungary.
During its existence, the party participated ...
(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. 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
People from Austria-Hungary
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