József Antall Prime Minister Of Hungary

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József Antall (1932-1993) was a key figure in the peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy in Hungary. Son of an anti-Nazi civil servant, who was a non-communist member of the coalition government in 1946, he stud-ied history, literature, art and law. He became a grammar school teacher, and was active in the 1956 Révolution as a young politician, a member of the National Guard, and in various rear-guard actions following the Soviet intervention. Banned from the teaching profession, he created the Semmelweis Muséum on the History of Medicine, an internationally renowned institution in Budapest. He was a founding member of the Hungarian Démocratie Forum, the first political party to challenge the mo-nopoly of the Communist Party. Elected its président in October 1989, he led the party to victory in the free election in 1990 and became Prime Minister un-til his untimely death. He initiated the Visegrád Co-operation with Présidents Havel and Walesa. As one of the obitu-aries... Tovább

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József Antall (1932-1993) was a key figure in the peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy in Hungary. Son of an anti-Nazi civil servant, who was a non-communist member of the coalition government in 1946, he stud-ied history, literature, art and law. He became a grammar school teacher, and was active in the 1956 Révolution as a young politician, a member of the National Guard, and in various rear-guard actions following the Soviet intervention. Banned from the teaching profession, he created the Semmelweis Muséum on the History of Medicine, an internationally renowned institution in Budapest. He was a founding member of the Hungarian Démocratie Forum, the first political party to challenge the mo-nopoly of the Communist Party. Elected its président in October 1989, he led the party to victory in the free election in 1990 and became Prime Minister un-til his untimely death. He initiated the Visegrád Co-operation with Présidents Havel and Walesa. As one of the obitu-aries remarked, he was "the unsung hero of the transition" in Central Europe, whose vision, grasp of world affairs and performance were much appreciated by the political leaders of the early 1990s, although the press never gave him due récognition. This selection of his most important speeches and interviews brings back the atmosphere of the great political transformation, and offers an insight into European history in the early 1990s, including the crisis in Yugoslavia. Vissza