Mihály Farkas

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The native form of this personal name is Farkas Mihály. This article uses the Western name order.

Mihály Farkas ( born Mihály Loewy, Abaújszántó, July 18, 1904. – Budapest, December 6, 1965.) was a Hungarian Communist politician, of Jewish origin

From the 1930s he had been a Communist. He lived in Kassa and Prague then. He fought in the Spanish Civil War; later he moved to the Soviet Union. He returned to Hungary in late 1944, and became a member of the Central Committee, the Political Committee and the Secretariat of the Hungarian Communist Party from May 1945. In 1945 he became under-secretary of Home Affairs. In 1946 he was elected deputy secretary and became the chairman of the party's Management Committee.

He was Minister of National Defence between September 9, 1948 and July 2, 1953. He was one of the main culprits of the Rákosi era, and in 1956 he was excluded from the party and convicted. He was released from prison in 1961 and spent his last years working as an editor in Budapest. His son Vladimir ,colonel of security police during the Rákosy regime , was known for his cruelty.

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• Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon 1000-1990.