Anna Kéthly

Anna Kethly ( born November 16, 1889 in Budapest, † September 7, 1976 in Blankenberge, Belgium ) was a Hungarian Social Democratic politician.

Life

Kethly worked from 1917 for the Magántisztviselők Országos Szövetség ( " State Association of Private Employees "), whose vice president she was later. The end of 1919 they began to support the Social Democratic Party. Among other things, she was a member of the Központi Nőszervező Bizottság ( " The central committee of women's organizations " ) and editor of the journal Nőmunkás ( " worker "). She has published in the daily Népszava ( " voice of the people " ) and in the Szociáldemokrata füzetek ( " Socialist books "). In 1920, she officially joined the Magyar Szociáldemokrata Part ( "Hungarian Social Democratic Party ," MSZDP ) a. With their political activity she earned respect and influence in their party. From 1922 to 1948 she was a member of the national leadership. During this time she also sat in Parliament.

During the Second World War, she supported the bourgeois opposition and the unity of the working parties. After 1945 she became head of the right wing of the party. Since the election defeat of the Communist Party in November 1945, the Hungarian parties were increasingly infiltrated by the Soviet side, the ballots finally reached the target with methods such as salami tactics or Blue in 1949, that the party of the Hungarian Working People (MDP ) as a single on the elections was approved. As Kethly turned in March 1948 against the union of the two workers' parties, she was expelled from the party.

With the power of the state terror began under the Stalinist Mátyás Rákosi. Anna Kethly was arrested and sentenced to life in prison. However, in 1954 she received an amnesty back to freedom. Two years later, during the Hungarian uprising, she worked intensively on the reorganization of the Social Democratic Party. On 31 October 1956, she was the party leader. On November 2, it was State Minister in the government of Imre Nagy and practical whose Deputy Prime Minister. After the suppression of the uprising in 1957, she traveled to the Congress of the Second International to Vienna and returned to her death not return to Hungary.

In the Belgian exile, she led the Magyar Forradalmi Tanács ( " Council of the Hungarian Revolution"). After her emigration she was seven years editor of the London-based Népszava. István According Bibó, who had also been a minister in the government of Imre Nagy, she was the only authentic representative of this Government abroad.

In October 1990, her ashes were transferred to the Új köztemető in Budapest.