- Ferenc Münnich
Infobox_President | name= Ferenc Münnich
nationality=Hungarian
order=Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary
term_start=January 28 ,1958
term_end=September 13 ,1961
predecessor=János Kádár
successor=János Kádár
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birth_date=Birth date|1886|11|18|mf=yes
birth_place=Seregélyes ,Austria-Hungary
death_date=Death date and age|1967|11|29|1886|11|18|mf=yes
death_place=Budapest , Hungary
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party=Hungarian Communist Party ,Hungarian Workers' Party ,Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
profession=Ferenc Münnich (born
November 18 1886 ,Seregélyes -November 29 1967 ,Budapest ) was a HungarianCommunist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1961.He served in theAustro-Hungarian Army in WWI, and fought in the Eastern front. He was captured in 1915, then deported to a lager inTomsk ,Siberia . In 1918, he was freed and returned to Hungary. He participated in the government of the 1919Hungarian Soviet Republic .He fought in theSpanish Civil War and was commissar ofRakosi Battalion ofXIII International Brigade [Hugh Thomas , "The Spanish Civil War", 4th Rev. Ed. 2001, p 927] He joined theHungarian Communist Party in October 1945. After WWII, he returned from exile and became a chief police superintendent ofBudapest . In1956 Hungarian Revolution , first he was officially part of theImre Nagy government, serving asinterior minister from October 27 to October 31, then fled to Soviet Union. He returned withJános Kádár and served as a minister in his "Revolutionary Worker-Peasant Government". On November 4, 1956 he was restored to his position as interior minister and also becamedefense minister , holding these positions until March 1, 1957. A couple of months later, he organized theWorker's Militia . In 1967, he was decorated with theLenin award of theSoviet Union .
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