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BOX-FOLDER-REPORT: 29-2-75
TITLE:             Background Information on the Leading Personalities of the Worker-Peasant Government
BY:                
DATE:              1956-11-16
COUNTRY:           Hungary
ORIGINAL SUBJECT:  From the Evaluation and Research Section
THEMATIC SUBJECTS: Hungary--1956 Revolution, Government, Personalities

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H-"GOVT" PERSONALITIES

FROM THE EVALUATION AND RESEARCH SECTION 16 NOVEMBER 1956

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

No. 8 

HUNGARIAN NATIONAL BANK

President: Denes SZANTO	1952 -	chief of the credit department of
the Hungarian National Bank;
1956 -	deputy director general of the
Hungarian National Bank;
member of the Hungarian Workers' Party
decorated with the "medal of the
Hungarian People's Republic' and the
'Order of Labor'

GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE OF
TRANSPORTATION AND
TELE-COMMUNICATION

Government commissary:

Gyorgy CSANADI		1951 -	general director of Hungarian Railways
from October 30 until November 3
Minister of Transport and Telecommunication
university professor,
Party member
president of the Educational Council
of young railwaymen
member of the National Technical
Development Council
decorated with the 'Order of Labor
Red Banner'

1956 -	Kossuth prize winner

GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE FOR
PUBLIC SUPPLY

Head: Rezso NYERS		member of the Hungarian Workers' Partly
and the Politbureau;
printer before the war
until October 27 1956 Deputy
President of the Cooperative
Association;
until November 3 1956 Minister of Food

Members: Imre KOVACS		before the war baker
leading member of the Bakers' Trade
Union
Party member
after 1945 first secretary of the Food Trade Union
1948 -	Deputy Minister
1956 -	Frist Deputy of the Minister of Food
decorated with the 'Order of Labor'

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Vilmos SAGHY			First Deputy of the Minister for Collecting
Surplus Produce and Livestock

Janos TAUSZ			Civil servant
member of the Communist Party and the
Politbureau
since 1951 Deputy Minister for Internal Trade
since July 1956 First Deputy of the Minister
of Internal Trade
from October 27 until November 3 Minister of
Internal Trade

Kalman PONGRAC			Iron turner
member of the Communist Party and the
Politbureau
since 1948 President of the Executive Committee
of the BUDAPEST Council
member of the BUDAPEST Party Committee
since 1953 member of Parliament since 1956 President of the Parliamentary
Legal Committee and member of the National
Council of the Patriotic Front
decorated with the 'Red Banner Order of Labor'
and the 'Order of the People's Democracy'

GOVERNMENT COMMISSARIAT FOR
RECONSTRUCTION

Head: Ferenc NEZVAL		since 1951 member of the Presidium of the
People's Democracy
since 1954 alternate member of the Politburea
member of the Communist Party's Central Contr?
Committee
since June 1954 First Deputy of the Minister
of City and Country Planning
from October 27 until November 3 1956 Minister
of City and Country Planning

Members: Mihaly TABANYI		employee of the Ministry of Housing
and Public Construction

Rezso TRAUTMANN			since 1951 Deputy Minister of Housing and
Public Construction
1953 -	President of the National Housing Board
since 1955 member of the National Technical
Development Council

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H-2-"GOVT" PERSONALITIES
Jozsef PRIESZOL			mason
member of the Communist Party
since 1947 member of Parliament
since 1953 Deputy Minister of Transport and
Telecommunication
awarded with the 'Order of Labor'

Istvan BARTOS			member of the Communist Party
in 1952 group leader at the Ministry of
Transport
in 1945 director at the Ministry of Housing
since 1955 Deputy President at the Executive
Committee of the BUDAPEST Council

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