Ferenc Nagy

Ferenc Nagy
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1st Prime Minister of the Second Hungarian Republic
In office 4 February 1946 – 31 May 1947
Preceded by	Zoltán Tildy
Succeeded by	Lajos Dinnyés
Personal details
Born	(1903-10-08)8 October 1903 Bisse, Austria-Hungary
Died	Herndon, United States
Nationality	Hungarian
Political party	Smallholders Party

This article is about the 1940s Prime Minister of Hungary. For the boxer, see Ferenc Nagy (boxer). For the 1990s politician, see Ferenc József Nagy.

The native form of this personal name is Nagy Ferenc. This article uses the Western name order.

Ferenc Nagy (8 October 1903 – 12 June 1979) was a Hungarian politician of the Smallholders Party. He was a Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary from 29 November 1945 to 5 February 1946 and a member of the High National Council from 7 December 1945 to 2 February 1946.

Nagy was reported to be of peasant origins.

Later he served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 4 February 1946 to 31 May 1947. He was elected in 1946, in Hungary's first democratic election. As prime minister, he resisted attempts by the Hungarian Communist Party to gain complete control of the government. He refused attempts by the Communists to become a puppet of a Soviet backed police state, but resigned under duress (they had kidnapped his son). He gave up the premiership in return for his son and 300,000 Swiss francs. Subsequently he was granted asylum in the United States.

Nagy documented his life and political career in The Struggle behind the Iron Curtain, published by MacMillan in 1948. In 1959, he was reported to have been the president of Permindex, a trade organization headquartered in Basel, Switzerland

Royalties from his memoirs helped him buy a house with a substantial garden plot in Herndon, Virginia (then an exurb of Washington, D.C.), there to live out his days.

Further reading

• Audiobook on tape : Lectures, speeches; English.

External links

• A film clip "Longines Chronoscope with Ference (SIC) Nagy" is available at the Internet Archive
• Speech by Ferenc Nagy on 23 March 1968, discussing America and the future of East Central Europe. From the University of Alabama's Emphasis Symposium on Contemporary Issues.

Political offices
Preceded by Béla Zsedényi Provisional National Assembly	Speaker of the National Assembly 1945–1946	Succeeded by Béla Varga
Preceded by Zoltán Tildy	Prime Minister of Hungary 1946–1947	Succeeded by Lajos Dinnyés
Preceded by Jenő Tombor	Minister of Defence Acting 1946	Succeeded by Albert Bartha