Gábor Vajna

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Gábor Vajna

Minister of the Interior of Hungary
In office 16 October 1944 – 27 March 1945
Preceded by	Péter Schell
Succeeded by	Ferenc Erdei
Personal details
Born	(1891-11-04)4 November 1891 Kézdivásárhely, Hungary
Died	12 March 1946(1946-03-12) (aged 54) Budapest, Hungary
Political party	Arrow Cross Party
Profession	politician

The native form of this personal name is Vajna Gábor. This article uses the Western name order.

Ministers of the Arrow Cross Party government. Gábor Vajna is in the third from left of the upper row.

Gábor Vajna (4 November 1891 – 12 March 1946) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Interior Minister between 1944 and 1945.

Vajna was a confidant of Prime Minister Ferenc Szálasi, the Hungarian fascist party leader and founder of the extreme right "Party of National Will", which later became Arrow Cross Party. Vajna was discontinued with the coming to power 15 October 1944 as Interior Minister in the government of Szálasi.

On the orders of Adolf Eichmann, demanded the German SS representative in Hungary, Edmund Veesenmayer and Otto Winkelmann, 17 October 1944 by the new Hungarian Interior Minister Gábor Vajna the rendition of "Leihjuden" to the German Reich. On 18 October he agreed to provide the new government under Ferenc Szálasi to provide the German Empire until the war 50,000 Jewish men and women as slaves for the armaments industry. Overall, the number of up to 1 December 1944 delivered "Leihjuden" finally 76 209. The majority was either on the death march, in concentration camps or in the entrenchments at the Southeast Wall died.

He made lot of orders against the Jews. After the fall of Budapest he tried to escape into Western Europe but the arrival American troops captured him with other members of the Arrow Cross Party's government. He was tried by the People's Tribunal in Budapest in open sessions and sentenced to death for war crimes and high treason. Vajna was hanged in 1946 in Budapest (on the same day as Ferenc Szálasi).

References

Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon

Political offices
Preceded by Péter Schell	Minister of the Interior 1944–1945	Succeeded by Ferenc Erdei

v t e Ministers of the Interior of Hungary since 1848

Revolution of 1848	Szemere

Kingdom of Hungary	Wenckheim Rajner V. Tóth Szapáry K. Tisza Orczy Baross Teleki Szapáry Hieronymi Perczel K. Széll Khuen-Héderváry I. Tisza Kristóffy Andrássy Khuen-Héderváry Lukács Sándor Ugron J. Tóth Wekerle

Transition period	Batthyány V. Nagy Landler and Vágó Peyer Samassa Perényi Beniczky

Regency	Simonyi-Semadam Dömötör Ferdinandy Tomcsányi Ráday Klebelsberg Rakovszky Scitovszky Keresztes-Fischer Kozma Darányi J. Széll Keresztes-Fischer Jaross Bonczos Schell

Transition period	Vajna Erdei I. Nagy Rajk Kádár

Communist Hungary	Zöld Házi Györe Gerő Piros Münnich Biszku Pap Benkei I. Horváth Kamara I. Horváth Gál

Republic of Hungary	B. Horváth Boross Kónya Kuncze Pintér Lamperth Bajnai Gyenesei Varga Pintér

v t e Far-right nationalism and fascism in Hungary to 1945

Political parties and groups	Arrow Cross Party Christian National Socialist Front Hungarian National Defence Association Hungarian National Socialist Agricultural Labourers' and Workers' Party Hungarian National Socialist Party National Front Party of Hungarian Life Rongyos Gárda United Hungarian National Socialist Party

People	Gábor Andreánszky István Antal Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky László Baky István Balogh László Bárdossy Károly Beregfy Zoltán Böszörmény László Budinszky László Csatáry László Endre Ákos Farkas Sándor Festetics Imre Finta József Gera Gyula Gömbös Árpád Henney Béla Imrédy Győző Istóczy Andor Jaross Béla Jurcsek Gábor Kemény András Kun Lajos Méhelÿ Zoltán Meskó József Nyírő Fidél Pálffy Ottokár Prohászka Pál Prónay Ferenc Rajniss Jenő Rátz Lajos Reményi-Schneller Dezső Szabó Ferenc Szálasi Jenő Szemák Döme Sztójay András Tasnádi Nagy Gábor Vajna Charles Zentai

Related articles	Arrow Cross Budapest ghetto Government of National Unity Greater Hungary Gyorshadtest Kolozsvár ghetto Labour service Levente Associations Szeged Idea Treaty of Trianon Turanism Vienna Awards

Persondata
Name	Vajna, Gábor
Alternative names
Short description	Hungarian politician
Date of birth	4 November 1891
Place of birth	Kézdivásárhely, Hungary
Date of death	12 March 1946
Place of death	Budapest, Hungary

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