László Bárdossy
| László Bárdossy | |
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| Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary | |
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In office 3 April 1941 – 7 March 1942 |
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| Monarch |
Miklós Horthy as Regent |
| Preceded by | Pál Teleki |
| Succeeded by | Miklós Kállay |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
10 December 1890 Szombathely, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 10 January 1946 (aged 55) Budapest, Hungary |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Political party | Party of Hungarian Life |
| Spouse(s) | Marietta Braun de Belatin |
| Profession | politician, diplomat |
László Bárdossy de Bárdos (10 December 1890 – 10 January 1946) was a Hungarian diplomat and politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from April 1941 to March 1942. He was one of the chief architects of Hungary's involvement in World War II.
Born at Szombathely on 10 December 1890 to Jenő Bárdossy de Bárdos and Gizella Zarka de Felsőőr, Bárdossy completed his secondary education at Eperjes (in present-day Slovakia) and in Budapest. He trained as a lawyer in Budapest, Berlin and Paris, and learned German, French and English. He began his career in 1913 as an assistant clerk in the Hungarian government's Ministry of Culture and Education, by 1918 was an assistant secretary. Three years later he reached the rank of ministerial secretary, having been commissioner of education for Pest County. In February 1922, he transferred to the newly established Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as deputy chief then chief of the press department. In March 1930 he was appointed as a counsellor to the Hungarian legation in London, latterly as chargé d'affaires. From October 1934, Bárdossy was the Hungarian envoy to Romania.
Hungary did not abandon the idea of reuniting the "Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen" after the Treaty of Trianon. Based on this doctrine, Hungary sought the revision of the treaty, claiming territories from Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia, including regions with no significant ethnic Hungarian population, such as Croatia. Between 1938 and 1940, following German–Italian mediation in the First and Second Vienna Awards, and the Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine, Hungary enlarged its territory. It absorbed parts of southern Czechoslovakia, Carpathian Ruthenia and the northern part of Transylvania, which the Kingdom of Romania ceded. One of the ethno-cultural areas that changed hands between Romania and Hungary at this time was the Székely Land. The support that Hungary received from Germany for these border revisions meant that the relationship between the two countries became even closer. On 20 November 1940, Hungary formally joined the Axis Tripartite Pact.
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