Pál Losonczi

Pál Losonczi [ pa ː l loʃontsi ] ( born September 18, 1919 in Bolho, Somogy, Hungary, † 28 March 2005 in Kaposvar, Somogy County ) was a Hungarian communist politician and former president.

The son of small farmers was one of the winners of the 1945 land reform. From 1948 to 1960 he was chairman of the agricultural cooperative "Red Star" in Barcs. Losonczi joined in 1945 the Party of the Hungarian Workers at which he later took from 1953 to 1989 as a deputy in the National Assembly.

On January 15, 1960, he was appointed Minister of Agriculture in the cabinet of Ferenc Munnich. This office he held until April 13, 1967 also in the Cabinets of János Kádár and Gyula Kállai.

On April 13, 1967, he was the successor of István Dobi Chairman of the Presidential Council and thus President of Hungary. On June 25, 1987 Károly Németh was elected his successor.

From 1975 to 1987 he was also a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party.

Swell

  • Short biography in rulers.org
  • Biography in brujula.net
  • Obituary in the " Washington Post"
  • List of Hungarian governments 1945-1989

Count Mihály Károlyi | Sándor Garbai | Miklós Horthy ( Regent ) | Ferenc Szálasi ( Leader of the Nation) | Zoltán Tildy | Árpád Szakasits | Sandor Ronai | István Dobi | Pál Losonczi | Károly Németh | Brúnó Straub | Mátyás Szurös | Árpád Göncz | Ferenc Mádl | Laszlo Solyom | Pál Schmitt | János Áder

  • President (Hungary )
  • MDP Member
  • MSZMP Member
  • Of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique ( Collane )
  • Support of the Finnish Order of the White Rose ( Grand Cross with chain of orders )
  • Hungarian
  • Born in 1919
  • Died in 2005
  • Man
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