- István Friedrich
István Friedrich (
July 1 ,1883 - 1951) was a Hungarian politician and factory owner who served as prime minister of Hungary for three months in 1919.He was born in the town of Malacka (today
Malacky , Slovakia) and studied engineering at the universities of Budapest and Charlottenburg before reading law at Budapest and Berlin.Being a "counter-revolutionary", he was arrested during the time of the
Hungarian Soviet Republic , but managed to escape. OnAugust 6 ,1919 he took part in the coup that ousted Prime MinisterGyula Peidl . Appointed byArchduke Joseph , he served as Prime Minister of Hungary fromAugust 7 toNovember 25 ,1919 and remained Minister of Defence untilMarch 15 ,1920 .In the early 1920s, he founded an extreme-right-wing association, and was MP from 1920 to 1939.
He was supposedly arrested in 1951 by the
Mátyás Rákosi administration; however, his further fate remains unknown. The proposed date of his death is 1958.
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