Antal Dovcsák

Antal Dovcsák ( born March 11, 1879 in Budapest, Austria - Hungary, † 1962 in Vienna) was union leader, socialist Hungarian politician, and in 1919 a short time Prime Minister of the Hungarian Soviet Republic.

Dovcsák was before the First World War union leaders of the steelworkers and politicians of the Hungarian Social Democratic Party ( MSZDP ).

As the first republican government of Hungary resigned after the end of the First World War under Mihály Károlyi, Dovcsák was appointed in Revolutionary Council of Hungarian Socialist Soviet Republic, which was under the de facto leadership of the People's Commissar of Foreign Béla Kun on March 21, 1919 Deputy Council for People's supply. As of June 24, 1919, he followed the Prime Minister Sándor Garbai in office. End of July the Soviet government resigned and gave up the fight against the Hungarian counter-revolutionaries and the Allied invaders on. Dovcsák was trade minister in the set up on August 1, 1919 social democratic union government Gyula Peidl that still made ​​a large part of the previous nationalization decisions reversed. On 6 August, the government was overthrown under the pressure of Romanian troops in Budapest. Dovcsák was arrested and imprisoned.

In 1922, he was deported from the Horthy regime as part of a prisoner exchange in a group of politicians in the Soviet Union. Dovcsák then went to Austria in 1923.

Through its continued activity is not known.