Kálmán Darányi

• Records of the Prime Minister’s Office (1867-1945)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 26
• English
• 1867-1945
• 1406 fasc., 216 vols., 212,74 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

A whole row of Hungarian Prime Ministers and their offices have played notable roles in the history of anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews during the 1930s and 1940s. In Hungary, anti-Semitic initiatives, including anti-Semitic legislation, was often launched and even more often supported at this level. In 1944, following the entry of Nazi Germany into Hungary, it was the newly appointed government headed by Prime Minister Döme Sztójay that actively collaborated with the German Sonderkommando in the implementation of the mass deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Records of the ...

• Personal Files of Prime Ministers and other governmental officials: Kálmán Darányi

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 34
• English
• 1930-1936
• 1 fasc., 0,14 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

Kálmán Darányi (1886-1939) was a politician who served as Minister of Agriculture and later as Prime Minister of Hungary (1936-1938), replacing the deceased Gyula Gömbös. In March 1938, the program of Győr, a massive program of military and infrastructural development, was initiated under his premiership. The program was conceived by Béla Imrédy, Minister of Economic Coordination who was to become his immediate successor. At first pursuing balancing acts, Darányi clearly shifted to the right in the latter parts of his premiership. He was to initiate the First Anti-Jewish Law that was eventu...

• Papers of the Ministry of Finance (1867-1945)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 269
• English
• 1867-1945
• 516 fasc., 35 vols., 73,841 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The Holocaust was not only the largest genocidal operation in 20th century Hungarian history but also a gigantic campaign to systematically rob the wealth of Hungarian Jewry. In Hungary, the Europe-wide campaign of robbery usually referred to by the name of Aryanization had various initiators and a large segment of benefactors in society but it was planned as a state-directed and -controlled process with the Ministry of Finance playing a crucial role in it. Between 1938 and 1944, the Ministry was headed by Lajos Reményi-Schneller (1892-1946) who served as Minister of Finance under the succe...

• Ministry of Finance, Classified Presidential Documents (1871-1944)

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 256
• English
• 1871-1944
• 37 fasc., 16 vols., 5,92 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The Holocaust was not only the largest genocidal operation in 20th century Hungarian history but also a gigantic campaign to systematically rob the wealth of Hungarian Jewry. In Hungary, the Europe-wide campaign of robbery usually referred to by the name of Aryanization had various initiators and a large segment of benefactors in society but it was planned as a state-directed and -controlled process with the Ministry of Finance playing a crucial role in it. Between 1938 and 1944, the Ministry was headed by Lajos Reményi-Schneller (1892-1946), i.e. he served as Minister under the successive ...

• Records of Finance Minister Lajos Reményi-Schneller, 1938-1944

• Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
• MNL OL K 280
• English
• 1938-1944
• 14 fasc., 1,56 linear metres
• Updated 10 years ago

The Hungarian Ministry of Finance was headed by Lajos Reményi-Schneller (1892-1946) between 1938 and 1944, i.e. Reményi-Schneller served in this position in the successive governments of Darányi, Imrédy, Teleki (his second term), Bárdossy, Kállay, Sztójay, Lakatos and Szálasi. Reményi-Schneller even held the position of economic superminister (gazdasági csúcsminiszter) in the governments of Teleki, Bárdossy and Kállay. His policies were strongly in favor of Nazi Germany during the war years. In 1946, he was sentenced to death and executed as part of the Sztójay-trial. The collection contain...