Gyula Gömbös
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Vitéz Gyula Gömbös de Jákfa |
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| Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary | |
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In office 1 October 1932 – 6 October 1936 |
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| Monarch |
Miklós Horthy as Regent |
| Preceded by | Gyula Károlyi |
| Succeeded by | Kálmán Darányi |
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26 December 1886 Murga, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 6 October 1936 (aged 49) Munich, Germany |
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| Spouse(s) | Greta Reichert (first) Erzsébet Szilágyi (second) Greta Reichert (third; again) |
Gyula Gömbös de Jákfa (26 December 1886 – 6 October 1936) was a Hungarian military officer and politician, and served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1 October 1932 until his death on 6 October 1936.
Gömbös was born in the Tolna County village of Murga, Hungary, which had a mixed Hungarian and ethnic German population. His father was the village schoolmaster. The family belonged to the Hungarian Evangelical (i. e. Lutheran) Church.
Gömbös entered the Austro-Hungarian Army as a cadet in Pécs and quickly became a member of the officer corps, serving as a captain during World War I. While in the army, Gömbös became a staunch advocate of Hungary's gaining independence from Austria and a bitter critic of the Habsburgs. After World War I ended and Hungary split from Austria, Gömbös joined Conservative Hungarian forces in Szeged that were unwilling to support Communist Béla Kun, who had seized control of Hungary in 1919, forming his own paramilitary group, the Hungarian National Defence Association (Magyar Országos Véderő Egylet, or MOVE). Gömbös became a close ally of Miklós Horthy, the leader of the anti-Communist government in Szeged, and played a leading role in organizing Horthy’s army. For his services, Gömbös was made minister of defense in the Szeged government. After Kun’s government was ousted in August 1919, Gömbös helped direct the purge of Communists from Hungarian society. Gömbös also supported certain political actions against Hungary’s Jews.
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