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 (middle) with Sándor Rónai

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

From the 1930s he had been a Communist. He lived in Košice 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 9 September 1948 and 2 July 1953. He was one of the main culprits of the Rákosi era, and in 1956 he was expelled 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 was a colonel of security police during the Rákosi regime.

Source

Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon 1000–1990.

Political offices
Preceded by Péter Veres	Minister of Defence 1948–1953	Succeeded by István Bata

v t e Ministers of Defence of Hungary since 1848

Revolution of 1848	Batthyány Mészáros Görgey Aulich

Kingdom of Hungary	Andrássy Lónyay Szlávy Szende Ráday Orczy Fejérváry Kolossváry Nyiri Bihar Wekerle Jekelfalussy Hazai Szurmay

Transition period	Linder A. Bartha Festetics Böhm Haubrich Böhm (opposed by Z. Szabó Horthy) Haubrich Schnetzer Friedrich

Regency	Soós Sréter Belitska Csáky Gömbös Kozma Somkuthy Rőder Rátz K. Bartha V. Nagy Csatay

Transition period	Beregfy Vörös Tombor F. Nagy A. Bartha Dinnyés Veres

Communist Hungary	Farkas Bata Janza Maléter Münnich Révész Czinege Oláh Kárpáti

Republic of Hungary	Für Keleti J. Szabó Juhász Szekeres Hende

Authority control	VIAF: 166147774

Persondata
Name	Farkas, Mihaly
Alternative names
Short description	Hungarian politician
Date of birth	18 July 1904
Place of birth
Date of death	6 December 1965
Place of death

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