Gyula Károlyi
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Count Gyula Károlyi de Nagykároly |
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| Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary | |
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In office 24 August 1931 – 1 October 1932 |
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| Monarch |
Miklós Horthy as Regent |
| Preceded by | István Bethlen |
| Succeeded by | Gyula Gömbös |
| Prime Minister of the Counter-Revolutionary Government | |
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In office 5 May 1919 – 12 July 1919 |
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| Succeeded by | Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám |
| Member of the House of Magnates | |
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In office 31 January 1927 – 28 March 1945 |
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7 May 1871 Nyírbakta, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 23 April 1947 (aged 75) Budapest, Second Hungarian Republic |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Political party | Liberal Party, Unity Party |
| Profession | politician |
Gyula Count Károlyi de Nagykároly (7 May 1871 in Baktalórántháza – 23 April 1947) was a conservative Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1931 to 1932. He had previously been Prime Minister of the counter-revolutionary government in Szeged for several months in 1919. As Prime Minister, he generally tried to continue the moderate conservative policies of his predecessor, István Bethlen, although with less success.
He was born in Nyírbakta (now: Baktalórántháza) to an old family. His parents were Count Tibor Károlyi, who served as Speaker of the House of Magnates from 1898 to 1900, and Countess Emma Degenfeld-Schomburg. Tibor Károlyi was also the guardian of Gyula's first cousin, Mihály Károlyi, who would become first Prime Minister and then President of Hungary.
After grammar school studies he attended the Faculty of Law at the University of Budapest, followed by studies at the University of Berlin and the University of Bonn. After returning home, he joined Hungarian politics as a member of the House of Magnates. He served as the ispán of Arad County between 1906 and 1910. Following this he retired from politics and started farming on the huge family estate in Arad County. He became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1915.
After World War I broke out, he volunteered and fought on the Eastern Front as a lieutenant of hussars. After the war he returned to his estate, but the country's situation was chaotic: his cousin, Mihály Károlyi led the Aster Revolution and the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy collapsed. The new leadership decreased the Hungarian Army's numbers to indicate their peaceful intentions towards the Entente Powers. The adjacent countries (Romania, and Czechoslovakia) took advantage of this to gain even more territory: the Romanians occupied Transylvania and the Partium in Spring 1919. On top of this, the Hungarian Soviet Republic was established on 21 March 1919.
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