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BOX-FOLDER-REPORT: 29-2-32
TITLE:             Background Information on the Leading Personalities of the Worker-Peasant Government
BY:                
DATE:              1956-11-23
COUNTRY:           Hungary
ORIGINAL SUBJECT:  From the Evaluation and Research Section
THEMATIC SUBJECTS: Hungary--1956 Revolution, Political Organizations--Hungary, Personalities

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H-GOVT, BIOGRAPHIES

FROM THE EVALUATION AND RESEARCH SECTION 23 NOVEMBER 1956

BACKGROUND, INFORMATION ON LEADING PERSONALITIES OF
THE WORKER-PEASANT GOVERNMENT

No. 9

HUNGARIAN RED CROSS

President: Dr. Gyorgy KILLNER Surgeon
Members of the
management: Dr. Boldizsar HORVATH Doctor-professor, head
physician of the Szent Janos
hospital

Dr. Tibor NONAI Doctor-professor, head of the
opthalmic clinic

Dr. Mihaly GEDENYI Journalist, member of the
National Committee of
Hungarian journalists

GOVERNMENT COMMISSIONER OF
PUBLIC EDUCATION:
Dr. Albert KONYA University professor, dean of
the mechanical engineering
faculty, alternate member of
the CP Central Committee;
member of the DISZ Central
Committee; deputy head of the
Cultural and Scientific
Department of the CP; since July
1953 deputy Minister of Public
Education; from July 1956 to
October 3 Minister of Public
Education

CHIEF PROSECUTOR OF THE
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC

Dr. Geza SZENASI

RECONSTRUCTIOIN GOVERNMENT COMMTTEE.

Secretary:	Gyorgy MARTIN


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H-1-GOVT BIOGRAPHIES

FREE TRADE UNION OF HUNGARIAN PEDAGOGUES

Member of the
management: Laszlo JUHASZ

BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF CO-OPERATIVES

President: Sandor MESZAROS CP member; in 1951 head of the
Planning Department of the
National Union of Co-operatives
(SZOVOSZ); in 1955 deputy
president of SZOVOSZ; awarded the
"Order of Labor."

NATIONAL UNION OF HUNGARIAN JOURNALISTS

Chief secretary: Ferenc VADASZ	CP member; former partisan,
decorated for his merits in the
resistance; from 1951 chief
secretary of the National Union
of Hungarian Journalists (MUO SZ);
member of the National Peace
Council; awarded "Medal for
Socialist Work."

MINISTRY OF FINANCE

First deputy:	Dr. Istvan ANTOS	CP member; professor at the
Economic University; MP; 1956
president of the Parliamentary
Economic and Finance Committee;
1953-1955 first deputy of the
Minister of Finance; 1955 head
of the Department for
Planning-Finance and Trade of the CP
Central Committee.

WORKERS' COUNCIL OF GREAT BUDAPEST

Members:	Jozsef BALAZS	Cultural executive of the
enterprise committee of the Hungarian
Steel Factory

Janos FAZEKAS	Turners; president of the UJPEST
"Duclos" Mining Machinery
Factory's Workers' Council

Istvan BABAI

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