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BOX-FOLDER-REPORT: 29-3-192
TITLE:             Personal Data on the Leaders of Revolutionary Organizations
BY:                
DATE:              1956-12-5
COUNTRY:           Hungary
ORIGINAL SUBJECT:  ERS
THEMATIC SUBJECTS: Hungary--1956 Revolution, Political Organizations--Hungary, Personalities

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FROM THE EVALUATION AND RESEARCH SECTION	5 DECEMBER 1956

110 PERSONAL DATA ON THE LEADERS OF REVOLUTIONARY "E" DIST.
ORGANIZATIONS

No . 11.

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF FREE HUNGARIAN TRADE UNIONS

Chairman: Miklos SOMOGYI Master-carpenter;
Was elected MP in 1947 on the list of the
Communist Party;
Became Chairman of the National Trade Union
of Construction Industry Workers.

Vice-Chairman: Mikloe WAS-WITTEG Prior to the war First Secretary of the
Iron Workers' Union. Member of the old
Socialist Party;
Was elected MP in 1947;
Secretary of State at the Ministry of Building
and Public Works;
Was arrested in 1951 and probably released
in 1955.

First Secretary: Sandor GASPAR Car mechanic;
Became Secretary of the Iron Workers' Union
and member of the Central Committee of
the Hungarian Workers' Party in 1951;
MP;
Became member of the Presidium and Secretary
of the Hungarian Trades Union Council in
1953;
Became President of the Hungarian Trades
Union Council and member of the Presidium
of the Hungarian People's Republic in 1955;
Since July 1956 alternate member of the
Politbureau of the Hungarian Workers'
Party;
Member of the parliamentary foreign,
economic and financial committees.

First Deputies of 
First Secretary: Odon KISHAZI Prior to the war member of the Executive
Committee of the Social Democratic Party
and one of the leaders of the Trade Union
of Construction Industry Workers;
Became President of the Trades Union Council
and MP in 1947;
Was arrested in 1951 and released in 1955.

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Jeno FOCK Member of the Hungarian Workers' Party;
Became Chairman of the Scientific Association of
Machine Industry in 1952;
Between 1953 and 1954 Deputy Minister at the
Ministry of Metallurgy and Machine Industry;
Became Secretary of the Hungarian Trades Union
Council in 1955,
Became alternate member of the Central Committee
of the Hungarian Workers' Party in 1956.

Secretaries: Erno ZENTAI Toolman;
Became Chairman of the State Employees' Trade
Union;
Since 1953 member of the Presidium and Secretary
of the Hungarian Trades Union Council;
Honored Worker of the Republic.

Madame Janos BUGAR Member of the National Council of the People's
Patriotic Front;
Secretary of the National Peace Council;
Member of the Presidium of the Hungro-Soviet
Society;
Member of the Central Committee of the Union of
Working Youth.

Members of the Secretariats
Jozsef VINCZE Took part in the Spanish civil war; decorated
with the "Mate ZALKA" Order (partisan order);
Member of the Hungarian Workers' Party;
Since 1951 head of Social Insurance Department
of the Hungarian Trades Union Council;
Was decorated with the 'Order of Labor'.

Bela HARY Member of the Hungarian Workers' Party;
Since 1951 head of department at the Hungarian
Trades Union Council;
Member of the Central Committee of the Trade
Union of Commercial and Inland Revenue
Employees;
Visited the USSR in 1955 on a study-tour.

ASSOCIATION OF REVOLUTIONARY YOUNG WORKERS

Member of the Executive Committees Jozsef UJVARI
Member of the Executive Committee for county Vas: Laszlo FILOTAS

NATIONAL PLANNING BOARD

Head of Department for mining and power; Zoltan VADASZ

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