Preceded by Marton Lovaszy Profession politician, jurist Role Hungarian Politician | Political party Independence Party Name Sandor Nagy | |
Succeeded by Janos Vass (Minister of Religion)
Zsigmond Kunfi (Minister of Education) Born 13 October 1883
Kaba, Austria-Hungary ( 1883-10-13 ) Died May 10, 1946, Debrecen, Hungary | ||
Sandor Juhasz Nagy (13 October 1883 – 10 May 1946) was a Hungarian politician, who served as State Secretary of Religion and Education between 1918 and 1919 with ministerial competence. He finished his law studies in Debrecen, Kolozsvar and Budapest. He worked as a lawyer in Debrecen from 1910. He was member of the National Assembly of Hungary between 1917 and 1919. He supported Mihaly Karolyi, joined to the Karoly Party, after the Independence Party was collapsed to two parts. Denes Berinkey appointed him Minister of Justice on 25 January 1919.
After the establishment of the Hungarian Soviet Republic he retired from the politics and lived in Debrecen. Later he emigrated to Vienna, and only returned to Hungary in 1923. From the 1930s he participated in the oppositional liberal movements. Later he supported the politics of Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky. During the Operation Margarethe (19 March 1944) he was arrested by the Nazis for some days. He served as Deputy Speaker of the Interim National Assembly between 21 December 1944 and 5 September 1945. He was member of the assembly from 4 November 1945.