Preceded by Geza Daruvary Role Hungarian Politician Name Emil Nagy | Profession politician, jurist Succeeded by Istvan Bethlen | |
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Born November 16, 1871
Kaposvar, Austria-Hungary ( 1871-11-16 ) Political party Unity Party, United Party of Independence and of 1848 (Kossuth Party) Died August 20, 1956, Budapest, Hungary | ||
Emil Nagy de Vámos (16 November 1871 - 20 August 1956) was a Hungarian politician and jurist, who served as Minister of Justice between 1923 and 1924.
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Biography
He studied law in Budapest, after that he went to the German Empire to a field trip. He was a trainee in Paris, France in 1895. He worked as a lawyer in the Hungarian capital city between 1898 and 1946 with short interruptions. He was a member of the International Law Association since 1926.
He served as representative of the Diet of Hungary between 1905 and 1935 at many times. He was a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union from 1926. He also served as Vice President of the Christian Social Alliance and of the Association of the Hungarian Foreign Affairs. István Bethlen appointed him justice minister on 11 June 1923. He resigned and left the governing party in 1924. Nagy was one of the main propagators of the Hungarian Revisionism. He was the chairman of the Hungarian-Finnish Society, a society for creating cultural links between Finland and Hungary.
After the Second World War he retired from the poltiics and public life. During the communist regime he was internated in 1951. He was set free in 1953. Emil Nagy died on 20 August 1956.
Family
Emil Nagy had three wives.
Journalism
He published articles for the Budapesti Hírlap and the Pesti Hírlap between 1904 and 1944.