Sándor Zöld
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Sándor Zöld | |
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Minister of the Interior of Hungary | |
In office 23 June 1950 – 20 April 1951 | |
Preceded by | János Kádár |
Succeeded by | Árpád Házi |
Personal details | |
Born | Nagyvárad, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary | 19 May 1913
Died | 20 April 1951 Budapest, Hungary | (aged 37)
Political party | Hungarian Communist Party, Hungarian Working People's Party |
Profession | physician, politician |
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), his family moved to Berettyóújfalu after the signing of the Treaty of Trianon. In 1932 he joined to the illegal Communist Party with supporting of Gyula Kállai. From 1942 he worked as a physician in the Berettyóújfalu hospital. 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. 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 accurate clarification of the bygones was canceled.[clarification needed]
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