Béla Imrédy

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Vitéz Béla Imrédy de Ómoravicza
Prime Minister of Hungary
In office 14 May 1938 – 16 February 1939
Regent	Miklós Horthy
Preceded by	Kálmán Darányi
Succeeded by	Pál Teleki
Personal details
Born	(1891-12-29)29 December 1891 Party of Hungarian Life, Party of Hungarian Renewal
Spouse	Irén Nelky
Profession	politician, economist

Béla

from 1938 to 1939.

Born in

to suffer economically.

In February 1939, Imrédy's moderate political opponents, angered at his growing compliancy to Germany and Hungary's right wing, presented evidence to Regent Horthy that suggested Imrédy's great-grandfather was Jewish. When Horthy confronted Imrédy with the evidence, Imrédy could not deny the claims about his heritage and resigned the premiership on 13 February 1939. Imrédy served in the Hungarian Army for a time in 1940, and in October of that year he founded the pro-fascist,

, he was sentenced to death and executed by a firing squad in the courtyard of the jail in Markó street, Budapest, in 1946.

References

• Magyar életrajzi lexikon
• Életrajz SZTE Egyetemi Könyvtár Hadtörténeti gyűjtemény
• Az ezenanapon.hu összefoglalója
• Az Imrédy-kormány belpolitikája
• Az Imrédy-kormány külpolitikája
• Fotó Imrédy Béláról A kivégzés előtti percekben
• (Pincus Lauder) Markó Gergely: Imrédy Béla
• Imrédy Béla csodás forradalma mult-kor.hu

External links

• Newspaper clippings about Béla Imrédy in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

Political offices
Preceded by Frigyes Korányi	Minister of Finance 1932–1935	Succeeded by Tihamér Fabinyi
Preceded by Kálmán Darányi	Prime Minister of Hungary 1938–1939	Succeeded by Pál Teleki
Preceded by Kálmán Kánya	Minister of Foreign Affairs Acting 1938	Succeeded by István Csáky