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Kálmán Kánya

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Preceded by
  
Gyula Gombos

Succeeded by
  
Bela Imredy

Role
  
Political leader

Name
  
Kalman Kanya

Profession
  

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Prime Minister
  
Gyula GombosKalman DaranyiBela Imredy

Born
  
November 7, 1869Sopron, Austria-Hungary (
1869-11-07
)

Political party
  
Party of National Unity

Died
  
February 28, 1945, Budapest, Hungary

Kálmán de Kánya (7 November 1869 - 28 February 1945), Foreign Minister of Hungary during the Horthy era. He started his diplomatic career in Constantinople. In 1913 he appointed as Austro-Hungarian ambassador to Mexico later to Berlin. From 1933 he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. During his ministership Hungary joined to the Tripartite Pact, the county became an ally of the Nazi Germany. Inside this he tried to counterbalance Germany's hegemony with increased cooperation with Italy. On the other hand, he kept good connections with the Little Entente.

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He was flying with the Prime Minister Béla Imrédy to Berchtesgaden and asked Hitler for the support of the Hungarian territorial claims. Kánya was leader of the Hungarian-Czechoslovak delegation which attended on the negotiations in Komárom. On 21 November 1938 he had to resign because of the German-Italian démarche Carpathian Ukraine's planned attack failed, when the Imrédy cabinet cancelled. During the end of the Second World War he supported István Bethlen and Miklós Kállay.

References

Kálmán Kánya Wikipedia


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