Lajos Drahos

Lajos Drahos ( born March 7, 1895 in Budafok, Budapest, † June 2, 1983 in Budapest) was a Hungarian politician.

Life

Drahos first worked as a construction worker, began after joining the Confederation of Iron and Metal Workers in 1913 to get involved as a union official and in 1915 was steward in the Manfréd Weiss factories. At the time of the Hungarian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic in 1919, he was a soldier of the Red Railway Regiment. Later, he was from 1926 to 1938 Member of the organizing committee of the Trade Union Federation in Budapest Csepel before he was exiled to his arrest and subsequent conviction of this district in 1938. In 1944 he joined the Communist Party a ( MKP ) and participated in late 1944 in the resistance movement in Csepel.

After the end of World War II, he became in 1945 a member of the Committee of the Iron and Metal Workers in the district of Csepel in the fall and until the fall of 1948 as Vice President. At the same time, he became in 1945 a member of parliament ( Országgyűlés ) and belonged to this until 1951.

In 1946 he was elected member of the Central Committee (CC ), to which he belonged, even after the renaming of the Communist Party of the Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP ) until 1954. August 23, 1949 to May 18, 1951, Drahos President of the Hungarian Parliament.

Subsequently, he was from May 1951 until his retirement in March 1955 Ambassador to the People's Republic of Poland.

After the Hungarian national uprising of 1956, he assisted in the reorganization of the MDP to the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party ( MSZMP ) and was most recently Vice President of the Union of Workers in the iron, metal and electrical industry ( VFVDS ).