Sándor Simonyi-Semadam

Sándor Simonyi-Semadam
Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary
In office
15 March 1920 – 19 July 1920
(&100000000000000000000000 years, &10000000000000126000000126 days)
Preceded by Károly Huszár
Succeeded by Pál Teleki
Personal details
Born March 23, 1864(1864-03-23)
Csesznek, Hungary
Died June 4, 1946(1946-06-04) (aged 82)
Budapest, Hungary
Nationality Hungarian
Political party KNEP
Profession politician, lawyer

Sándor Simonyi-Semadam (23 March 1864, Csesznek – 4 June 1946, Budapest) was a Hungarian politician who served as prime minister for a few months in 1920. He signed the Trianon Peace Treaty after World War I on 4 June 1920. With this treaty Hungary lost a considerable amount of its area. Simonyi was the member of the Hungarian-Nippon Society, a society for creating cultural links between Japan and Hungary.

After his term as prime minister he was involved in the financial sector. He was a board member of various banks . His daughter, Erzsébet Simonyi-Semadam had a son, Ernő Simonyi, a prominent lawyer, and Károly Simonyi, a nuclear physicist and university professor (father of Charles Simonyi) is raised as an adopted child.

On June 4, 1946, the twenty-sixth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Trianon, Simonyi-Semadam died at his home in Budapest.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Károly Huszár
Prime Minister of Hungary
1920
Succeeded by
Pál Teleki
Preceded by
József Somssich
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Acting

1920
Preceded by
Ödön Beniczky
Minister of the Interior
Acting

1920
Succeeded by
Mihály Dömötör