Kállay, Miklós

Kállay, Miklós

▪ prime minister of Hungary
born Jan. 23, 1887, Nyíregyháza, Hung., Austria-Hungary
died Jan. 14, 1967, New York, N.Y., U.S.

      politician who, as prime minister of Hungary in World War II, unsuccessfully attempted to extricate his country from the German alliance.

      Born of an old and influential family of local gentry, Kállay served first as lord lieutenant of his county (1921–29), moving later to the national government as deputy under secretary of state in the Ministry of Trade (1929–31) and minister of agriculture (1932–35). Resigning in 1935 in disagreement with the extreme right-wing policies of Prime Minister Gyula Gömbös, Kállay withdrew from active politics until 1942, when he was asked by Miklós Horthy, the regent of Hungary, to form a government that would reverse the policies of László Bárdossy (Bárdossy, László), whose government had involved the country in a dangerous dependence on Nazi Germany. Under the Kállay government (March 9, 1942–March 19, 1944), Jews enjoyed a degree of protection almost unparalleled on the European continent, and the press and the parties of the left continued to function. Internationally, Kállay pursued a policy of armed opposition to Russia concurrently with peaceful overtures to the Western powers. Dissatisfied with the manner in which Hungary was pursuing the war, Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944.

      Kállay was forced into hiding and subsequently taken prisoner, being held at the concentration camp of Dachau and, later, Mauthausen. Released when Germany collapsed, Kállay went into voluntary exile in 1946, eventually settling in the United States in 1951. His memoirs, Hungarian Premier; A Personal Account of a Nation's Struggle in the Second World War, appeared in 1954.

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