Zoltán Rónai Politician

Zoltán Rónai (16 August 1880 - 17 May 1940) was a Hungarian politician and jurist, who served as People's Commissar of Justice in 1919 during the Hungarian Soviet Republic. Before the First World War he worked as a journalist of the Népszava and of the Szocializmus. He was a supporter of the centrist Zsigmond Kunfi. After the fall of the communist regime he emigrated to Vienna to joining to the Two and Half Internationale. Then he lived in Austria, France and finally Belgium. He published articles for the Szocializmus, using the pseudonym of Zoltán Vándor. After the Nazi invasion of Belgium he committed suicide.

Personal facts

Zoltán Rónai
Birth dateAugust 16, 1880
Birth place
Austria-Hungary , Budapest
Date of deathMay 17, 1940
Place of death
Belgium , Brussels
Profession
Journalist , Jurist , Politician

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Office holder

party
Hungarian Social Democratic Party
successor

Zoltán Rónai on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://mek.oszk.hu/00300/00355/html/index.html