Hungarian National Council
The Hungarian National Council ( Hung, Magyar Nemzeti Tanács ) was an institution from the time of transition from the Kingdom of Hungary with the People's Republic in 1918. At the Party of the Hungarian Social Democrats in October 1918 called for the left-wing socialist minority to József Pogány a separate policy, to which should support emerging workers 'and soldiers ' councils. In contrast, Zsigmond Kunfi prevailed in the SPU that with the left-liberal " 48 " party of Count Mihály Károlyi and the bourgeois radical land party Oszkar Jászis an alliance was entered into. These three parties founded on October 25, the Hungarian National Council ( see also Aster Revolution).
The National Council called for a 12 -point program, especially the immediate end of the war, the independence of Vienna, the recognition of the rights of minorities in a "federation ungarnländischer Nations ", a comprehensive agrarian reform, assembly, association and expression as well as the universal, equal, even the women full suffrage.
Emperor Charles I, at the same time as Charles IV, King of Hungary, dismissed the end of October the previous prime minister István Tisza and appointed temporarily Count János Hadik to finally appoint the red Count Mihály Karoly Chef de Cabinet. On November 16, 1918, carried the deputies of the Hungarian Parliament, which came from the time before the war, the supreme state power on the Károlyi government, which then proclaimed the Hungarian Democratic Republic.
It was replaced by the Hungarian Soviet Republic under Béla Kun, who from March 21 to August 6, 1919 had on hand, and then the Kingdom of Hungary was re-established on 21 March 1920 that existed under the Horthy until 21 December 1944.