János Vörös (25 March 1891 – 23 July 1968) was a Hungarian military officer and politician who served as

Minister of Defence A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is the part of a government responsible for matters of defence and military forces, found in states where the government is divid ...

in the unofficial Interim National Government which led by

Béla Miklós Béla Miklós de Dálnok, Vitéz of Dálnok (, 11 June 1890 – 21 November 1948) was a Hungarian military officer and politician who served as acting Prime Minister of Hungary, at first in opposition, and then officially, from 1944 to 1945. ...

. He fought in the First World War at the Eastern Front and the Italian Campaign. He was appointed as Chief of Army Staff on 19 March 1944, when the Nazis occupied Hungary. Later Vörös joined the

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which arrived at Hungary's eastern border. He was the signer of the Moscow armistice convention as one of the members of the Interim Government delegation. In 1946 he was retired by them at his own request. During his 58th birthday (1949) he was arrested with the charge of spying by the military investigation service. The Military Court sentenced Vörös to

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him in 1950. He left prison in 1956, and died in 1968 in Balatonfüred.

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