Hungarian Communist leader hanged in 1932 under the summary jurisdiction proclaimed after the Biatorbágy bombing
Born in Erdőfüle, he bore the surname Hollender until 1916. A bank clerk, he organised an anti-militarist movement with Ottó Korvin during the First World War and was arrested in 1918. In the 1919 Soviet Republic he was Korvin’s deputy in the political department of the people’s commissariat of the interior. After its fall he fled via Vienna to Moscow and worked for International Red Aid, and was sent home on Béla Kun’s proposal to run the illegal party press. Arrested in July 1932, he was sentenced to death although he had no part in the Biatorbágy bombing, and was hanged with Sándor Fürst on 29 July.
Activities and affiliations
Career Timeline
- 1918Arrested for anti-militarist agitation
- 1919Deputy head of the interior commissariat’s political department
- 1919–1931Exile in Vienna and Moscow; International Red Aid
- 1931–1932Returns to run the illegal party press
- 1932Arrested and hanged after a summary trial