István Szabó de Nagyatád
| István Szabó de Nagyatád | |
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| Minister of Agriculture of Hungary | |
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In office 15 August 1919 – 27 August 1919 |
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| Preceded by | Loránd Győry |
| Succeeded by | Gyula Rubinek |
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In office 15 August 1920 – 3 December 1921 |
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| Preceded by | Gyula Rubinek |
| Succeeded by | János Mayer |
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In office 16 June 1922 – 14 October 1924 |
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| Preceded by | János Mayer |
| Succeeded by | István Bethlen |
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17 September 1863 Erdőcsokonya, Kingdom of Hungary |
| Died | 31 October 1924 (aged 61) Erdőcsokonya, Kingdom of Hungary |
| Political party | National Independence Agrarian Party of 48, National Smallholders and Agrarian Workers Party (OKGFP), Unity Party |
| Profession | politician |
István Szabó de Nagyatád (17 September 1863 – 31 October 1924) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Agriculture three times: in 1919, between 1920 and 1921 and from 1922 to 1924.
He was born into a Hungarian Calvinist family in Erdőcsokonya (now: Csokonyavisonta after the union with Somogyvisonta). After collecting possessions he was elected municipal judge. From 1904 he politicizied in the assembly of Somogy County's municipal committee. He became a member of the House of Representatives in 1908, after he won the elections opposite the Independence Party's candidate in the Nagyatád constituency (he obtained his title of nagyatádi then). He was a representative with the program of Alliance of the Smallholders in Somogy County (local organization). In his first speech he asked the MEPs that the agrarian worker people must called smallholder and not as peasant, because the peasant word was with a pejorative sound in the Transdanubia. As opposed to the socialists (András Áchim Liker) and the civil radicalists he was a supporter of a moderate agrarian reform which was acceptable for the great landowners and the too. But in the first times his ambitious include the creation of the universal suffrage. He criticized the unfair tax system, the function of the fideicommissum familiae. He promoted the co-operatives' foundation, the settlements and the voluntary and partial parceling out of the large estates. He stayed moderate in the civil questions and he made the official Hungarian power point of view his own though in the nationality question.
He won the wealthier, primarily in Transdanubia, peasantry's support with his political performance and the agrarians considered him as their possible ally. In 1909 he founded National Independence Agrarian Party of 48 in Szentgál. He became a parliamentarian representative of his party in the next year (there were two other politicians who gain a seat with the colours of Szabó's association). He served as minister without portfolio of managing of the land reform in the Dénes Berinkey cabinet (1919). After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic he was the most popular politician in Hungary, so Miklós Horthy invited him to Siófok where formed the new system. He formed his party with the name of National Smallholders and Agrarian Workers Party (OKGFP) in 1920, which won the next parliamentarian election. Gyula Rubinek got him to do unification with the United Smallholders and Agrarian Workers Party which led by István Szabó de Sokorópátka. Then he took on the submitting of the land reform law proposal drawn up by Rubinek. The agrarian press made him a scapegoat in the course of the debate of the law yet. The landowners tried to sabotage the execution of the new law (1920 Act XXXVI), as a result of that finally 400,000 claimants secured altogether a hectare of soil averagely. Seeing the failure of the execution he put a modifier proposal on to the law, but because of this at from the previous conflicts, denouncing got into sharper the assault fire of attacks. The afforestation of the Great Hungarian Plain, drainage and watering programs began under his ministry, co-operatives and winter agricultural schools came into existence.
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