Miklós Kállay

Miklós Kállay of Nagy- Kálló [ Miklos ː ʃ ka ː l ː ɒi ] ( born January 23, 1887 in Nyíregyháza, Hungary, † January 14, 1967 in New York) was a Hungarian politician who unsuccessfully tried as Prime Minister, Hungary to break away from the alliance with Germany.

Life

Kállay came from an old and influential family of the Hungarian gentry. From 1921-1929 worked in local politics, he later moved to the Ministry of Economic Affairs 1929-1931 and was from 1932 to 1935 Minister of Agriculture. Due to disagreements with Prime Minister Gyula Gombos, he stepped back and held up to 1942 away from active politics. In 1942 he was asked by Regent Miklós Horthy, to form a government. He should be the policy László Bardossy who had brought the country into a dangerous dependence on Germany revise. Kállay was prime minister of 9 March 1942 to 19 March 1944, and by 1943 at the same time foreign minister. He protected the Hungarian Jews, the press and the parties of the left. Kállay pursued a policy of war against the Soviet Union, combined with a peaceful approach to the Western powers. Hitler demanded the first time in early 1943 that would Kallay discontinued. He tried unsuccessfully to implement various alliance systems.

After Germany occupied in March 1944 in the "Company Margarethe " Hungary, Kállay searched on 19 March 1944 in the Turkish Legation Budapest refuge. There he remained until his arrest on 19 November 1944. He was placed in the Dachau concentration camp, later to Mauthausen. Kállay was kidnapped as a member of the hostage transport of prominent concentration camp inmates and prisoners clan of resistance fighters to South Tyrol and freed there on 4 May 1945. After the liberation, he remained in exile, and went in 1951 to the United States. His memoirs Hungarian Premier; A Personal Account of a Nation 's Struggle in the Second World War appeared in 1954.