Károly Grósz

Károly Grósz [ ka ː roj ɡro ː s] ( born August 1, 1930 in Miskolc, Hungary, † January 7, 1996 in Gödöllő, Hungary ) is a Hungarian communist politician, Prime Minister of the Hungarian People's Republic and General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party ( MSZMP ).

Rise in the Communist Party

The 1930 in Miskolc, the son of a working class family ( his father was a metal worker, his mother Slovak nationality ) was born Grósz trained as a printer and went even as a 15 -year-old in 1945 the Communist Party of Hungary (Hungarian: Magyar Kommunista Part, MKP ) at. After its merger with the Social Democratic Party of the Hungarian Workers' Party (Hungarian: Magyar Dolgozók Pártja, MDP ) 1948 to 1950 he held the office of the District Secretary of Borsod -Abaúj -Zemplén of the Communist Youth League. Over the next four years Grósz served as an officer. In 1954 he became head of the Agitation and Propaganda Department of the Party line in his home county of Borsod -Abaúj -Zemplén, in 1958, he was also editor of the newspaper Észak -Magyarország. After completion of the Party School Grósz 1961 employees of the Central Committee Department for Agitation and Propaganda. In the years 1962 to 1968 he was secretary of the party organization within the Hungarian Radio and Television.

1968 Grósz pursuant to the recommendation of the then First Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (Hungarian: Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt, MSZMP ), János Kádár, initially appointed deputy head of the Central Committee Department for Agitation and Propaganda. After a short year stint as First Secretary of the Party leadership of the district Fejér he was from 1974 to 1979 head of this department. In this position he was responsible for, among other things, the political and ideological guidance of the media.

His rapid rise within the central party leadership provisionally ended in 1979, reportedly after disagreements with Kádár. In that year he became First Secretary of the Party line of Borsod -Abaúj -Zemplén. At the 12th Congress of the MSZMP in 1980 Grósz was elected a member of the Central Committee of the MSZMP. By no later than 1984, he again found the support and promotion by Kádár, who found their first highlight with Grósz ' election as First Secretary of the Party leadership of Budapest in December 1984 and at the 13th Party Congress in March 1985 as a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the MSZMP. In this position Grósz increasingly became the " crown prince " and designated successor Kádár.

Prime Minister and General Secretary of the MSZMP

On June 25, 1987 Grósz was appointed Prime Minister of the Hungarian People's Republic. On May 22, 1988 Grósz eventually was elected to the National Conference of the MSZMP the new Secretary General of the MSZMP and thus the successor Kádár, who had held this position since the popular uprising of 1956.

On 24 November 1988 he succeeded as Prime Minister Miklós Németh. In contrast to this and the other representatives of the "reform" wing of the MSZMP to Grósz spoke as a convinced communist clearly and unequivocally for the preservation of the socialist system of which should be improved by reforms and strengthened, but in no way weakened or even abolished. This clear stance Grósz ran from early 1989, in ever-increasing conflict with the pressing on a task of socialism forces within and outside the party as well as abroad. Grósz and his allies were gradually marginalized in the course of 1989. In June 1989, his position as Secretary General of the MSZMP was by creating a - dominated by three outspoken representatives of the "reform" wing - four-member presidium, which he initially also belonged, devalued. At the party congress in October 1989 Grósz tried to prevent the utter abandonment of the Marxist- Communist character of MSZMP and their " social democracy " and to concentrate the left forces within the party one last time, remained with his claims but in the minority. MSZMP the resolution passed by the Congress then in Hungarian Socialist Party (Hungarian: Magyar Szocialista Part, MSZP ) and renamed approached ideologically Western European social democratic parties. These decisions were defeated at the party communists including Grósz not ready mitzutragen what the question about the next steps had become virulent.

Co-founder of the reorganized MSZMP and supporters of the communist movement in Hungary

After a moment's hesitation about the einzuschlagenden given the new situation in Hungary and the other socialist states of Europe way to Grósz devoted then from November 1989 with great use of the reorganization of the communist forces of Hungary and became one of the most prominent co-founder and avid promoter of the ( under her 14th Party Congress ) renewed as a communist, the foot Direction on the principles of Marxism and Leninism, Party in December 1989, the Hungarian Socialist workers' Party ( MSZMP ), the first central committee he was a member. Due to a serious illness in an active participation in political life increasingly prevented Grósz had in his last years as a consultant and " doyen " of the communist movement in Hungary until only 65 years old died in Gödöllő in January 1996.