Citizenship Hungarian Name Zoltan Mesko Height 1.96 m Weight 104 kg | Known for Nazi politician Role American football punter 40 yard dash time 4.79 seconds | |
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Full Name Zoltan Mesko de Szeplak Born March 12, 1883 ( 1883-03-12 ) Baja Died June 10, 1959(1959-06-10) (aged 76)
Nagybaracska Political party Hungarian National Socialist Party Current team Cincinnati Bengals (#3 / Punter) Education Ross School of Business, University of Michigan Parents Elisabeth Mesko, Michael Mesko Profiles | ||
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Zoltan Mesko de Szeplak (12 March 1883, Baja - 10 June 1959, Nagybaracska) was a leading Hungarian Nazi during the 1930s. He led his own Nazi movement during the early 1930s but faded from the political scene when Hungary became a member of the Axis powers.
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- Zoltan mesko interview nfl punter new england patriots
- New england patriots punter zoltan mesko came to the united states from romania at age 11 discovere
- Move to Nazism
- Greenshirts
- Later years
- References
New england patriots punter zoltan mesko came to the united states from romania at age 11 discovere
Move to Nazism
Mesko came from a landowning family of Slovak origin and was first elected to parliament in 1931 as a representative of the Smallholders Party, an agrarian group. Following his election to parliament Mesko arrived at the Hungarian Parliament Building wearing the uniform of the German Sturmabteilung, and as a consequence he soon joined Zoltan Boszormeny's National Socialist Party of Work. Mesko would go on to announce in parliament that he was forming a 'Hungarian Hitlerite Movement', although Mesko's appearance in a homemade version of a foreign uniform attracted much hilarity in the parliamentary chamber.
Greenshirts
In 1932 Mesko split from Boszormeny and joined the Hungarian National Socialist Agricultural Labourers and Workers Party, which sought to imitate the Nazi Party by emphasising anti-Semitism and by adopting both the brown-shirted uniform of the SA that Mesko had worn to parliament and the swastika. Mesko's personal admiration for Adolf Hitler was significant and he even went as far as growing a toothbrush moustache in an attempt to physically resemble the Nazi Party Fuhrer.
Mesko's movement also utilised the arrow cross as its emblem, although it alternated this with a green swastika on a brown background and eventually abandoned the brown shirt in favour of a green alternative. As a result, the group became known colloquially as the Greenshirts and they continued to operate within Mesko's earlier field of agrarian politics to an extent by seeking to build a support base amongst landless peasants. The group was largely unsuccessful however and the Greenshirts were unable to establish anything approaching the mass following that Mesko sought.
Later years
Mesko became one of the three leaders of the amalgamated Hungarian National Socialist Party in 1934, alongside Sandor Festetics, who had his own Hungarian National Socialist People’s Party and Fidel Palffy, whose group already bore the Hungarian National Socialist Party name. Mesko however was expelled as part of a power struggle the following year as Palffy made himself sole leader. Mesko was noted as the least radical of Hungary's competing Nazi leaders as throughout his period as a leader he maintained a loyalty to the regency of Miklos Horthy where other Hungarian Nazis sought the Admiral's overthrowing.
Mesko initially attempted to reform the Greenshirts but he proved to be unsuccessful in these efforts. He was returned to parliament in the 1939 parliamentary election as an independent national socialist, although his fervour for Hitler had begun to dampen. Increasingly disillusioned with Nazi Germany, he played little role in the wartime politics of Hungary. Despite this he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1945, although he was released before his death.