István Csáky

István Csáky, Hungarian Gróf Csáky István, Count Stefan Csáky German, English "Count Stephan Csáky " (* July 14, 1894 in Segesvár; † January 27, 1941 in Budapest) was a Hungarian politician, who from 1938 until his death in 1941 Hungarian Foreign Minister was.

Life

Csáky was born, which at the time belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary in Segesvár (Romania today Sighişoara ). He studied law in Budapest and attended the Imperial and Royal Consular Academy in Vienna. After the end of World War II, he participated as a diplomat in the peace negotiations that led to the Treaty of Trianon. He then worked at the Hungarian embassies to the Vatican and in Bucharest, Madrid and Lisbon, and filled various positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Budapest. As an official observer of Hungary in 1938, he took part in the negotiations for the Treaty of Munich and was in November 1938 at the follow-up negotiations to the First Vienna Award Member of the Hungarian delegation. On December 10, 1938 Prime Minister Béla Imredy him appointed to the Hungarian Foreign Minister. Imredy was also his predecessor as foreign minister.

As Foreign Minister Csáky 1940 was a leading participant in the negotiations on the Second Vienna Award, with which the lost to Romania in the Treaty of Trianon areas should be recovered. Even Hungary's accession to the Tripartite Pact was in the tenure Csákys. On 17 December 1940, he signed on the instigation of Germany a friendship agreement between Hungary and Yugoslavia, which would Hungary by the invasion on Germany's side to break out soon. This experienced Csáky not because he died of a serious illness in January 1941.