Dénes Berinkey

Dénes Berinkey (* October 17, 1871, † June 25, 1944 ) was a Hungarian politician and briefly Prime Minister.

Biography

Berinkey studied post-school law and was after graduation worked as a lawyer. Between 1914 and 1918 he was a teacher at the Business Academy.

On 4 November 1918, he was appointed by Prime Minister Mihály Károlyi to the Minister of Justice in his cabinet.

After this had proclaimed a republic on 16 November 1918 and was elected on January 11, 1919 the first president, Berinkey followed him on 18 January 1918 as Prime Minister and took over at the same time from 19 January to 24 January 1919, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. On March 20, 1919 France ordered by the name of the head of the French military mission, Lieutenant Colonel Fernand Vix, named Vix note the further withdrawal of Hungarian troops in the Hungarian territory, whereby these military lines were seen as the future national territory.

After acceptance of this Note, the endangered the country's territorial integrity, Berinkey resigned with his cabinet on 22 March 1919. Following it came to the assumption of power by the Communist Party of Béla Kun.

In 1920 he then took his career as a lawyer again and wrote beside Essays on the topics of international law, civil law and criminal law.