Sándor Zöld

Sándor Zöld
Minister of the Interior of Hungary
In office
23 June 1950 – 20 April 1951
Preceded byJános Kádár
Succeeded byÁrpád Házi
Personal details
Born(1913-05-19)19 May 1913
Nagyvárad, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary
Died20 April 1951(1951-04-20) (aged 37)
Budapest, Hungary
Political partyHungarian Communist Party, Hungarian Working People's Party
Professionphysician, politician
The native form of this personal name is Zöld Sándor. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Sándor Zöld (19 May 1913 – 20 April 1951) was a Hungarian communist politician, who served as interior minister between 1950 and 1951. He followed János Kádár in this position.

Born in Nagyvárad (today Oradea, Romania),[1] his family moved to Berettyóújfalu after the signing of the Treaty of Trianon.[2] In 1932 he joined the illegal Communist Party[3] with the support of Gyula Kállai who recruited him.[4] From 1942 he worked as a physician in the Berettyóújfalu hospital.[5] He was a member of the interim national assembly in Debrecen at the end of the Second World War.

In the Rákosi regime, he was appointed as interior minister. On 19 April 1951, on the party's congress, Mátyás Rákosi criticized the work of the Ministry of the Interior and later considered to have him arrested. The next day the authorities found Zöld's dead body together with those of his whole family: two children, his wife and his mother. According to the official information, Zöld killed his family then committed suicide.[6] He was relieved of his interior ministerial position on the day of his death, and he was deprived of his offices in the Hungarian Working People's Party. His ashes were buried in an honorary grave in the Kerepesi Cemetery on 1 June 1957, but the exact details of what happened have never been clarified.

References

  1. ^ Bank, Barbara; Őze, Sándor (2005). A "német ügy" 1945-1953: a Volksbundtól Tiszalökig (in Hungarian). Magyarországi Németek Országos Önkormányzata. p. 14. ISBN 978-963-217-863-9. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
  2. ^ Az 1944. évi december hó 21-re Debrecenbe összegyűlt majd később Budapestre összehívót Ideiglenes Nemzetgyűlés almanachja, 1994. december 21-1945. november 29 (in Hungarian). Magyar Országgyűlés. 1994. p. 509. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
  3. ^ Pásztor, József M. (1980). "Az író beleszól--": balodali irodalmi folyóiratok az ellenforradalmi Magyarországon (in Hungarian). Kossuth Könyvkiadó. p. 116. ISBN 978-963-09-1674-5. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
  4. ^ "Zöld Sándor". kommunizmuskutato.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 31 December 2024.
  5. ^ Évfordulók (in Hungarian). Kossuth. 1983. p. 141. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
  6. ^ Árpád, Szakács (18 March 2017). "A családirtó belügyminiszter". KEMMA (in Hungarian). Retrieved 31 December 2024.
Political offices
Preceded by Minister of the Interior
1950–1951 		Succeeded by


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