Kálmán de Kánya (7 November 1869 – 28 February 1945) was the Foreign Minister of Hungary during the Horthy era. Kánya commenced his diplomatic career in

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. In 1913 he was appointed as

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ambassador to

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and later to

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. From 1933 he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. During Kánya's tenure

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joined the

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, becoming an ally of

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. He attempted to counterbalance Germany's hegemony with increased cooperation with

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and kept good connections with the

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. Kánya travelled with Hungarian Prime Minister

Béla Imrédy Béla vitéz Imrédy de Ómoravicza (; 29 December 1891 – 28 February 1946) was Prime Minister of Hungary from 1938 to 1939. Born in Budapest to a Catholic family, Imrédy studied law as a young man before he started working for the Hungaria ...

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to advocate on behalf of Hungarian territorial claims. Kánya was leader of the Hungarian-Czechoslovak delegation on the negotiations in

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. On 21 November 1938 Kánya was forced to resign following the failure of the German-Italian démarche Carpathian Ukraine invasion. During the end of the

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he supported

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and Miklós Kállay.

References

*Tóth, Imre: A polgári arisztokrata. Kánya Kálmán jellemrajza a kezdetektől a miniszteri posztig. Aetas, 24. évf. (2009) 2. sz. 23–43. *Pritz, Pál: Döntési folyamatok a magyar külpolitikában. In: uő: A magyar diplomácia a két háború között. Tanulmányok. Budapest, 1995.
Tóth, Imre: Egy németbarát viszontagságai Berlinben. Kánya Kálmán követi évei (1925–1933) Soproni Szemle, 2008. 3.

External links

*https://www.britannica.com/place/Hungary/History#ref411352 *http://www.hungarianhistory.com/lib/baross/baross01.htm *http://epa.uz.ua/00000/00010/00014/pdf/HSR_1986_1_003-034.pdf * 1869 births 1945 deaths Ministers of foreign affairs of Hungary Ambassadors of Hungary to Germany Ambassadors of Austria-Hungary to Mexico Hungarian fascists Expatriates from Austria-Hungary in the Ottoman Empire {{Hungary-politician-stub