Miklós Németh
| Miklós Németh | |
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| Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary | |
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In office 24 November 1988 – 23 October 1989 |
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| Preceded by | Károly Grósz |
| Succeeded by | Himself, as Provisional Prime Minister |
| Provisional Prime Minister of the Third Hungarian Republic | |
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In office 23 October 1989 – 23 May 1990 |
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| Succeeded by | József Antall |
| Member of the National Assembly | |
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In office 5 October 1988 – 22 April 1991 |
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| Personal details | |
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January 14, 1948 Monok, Hungary |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
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MSZMP (1976–1989) MSZP (1989–1990) Independent (since 1990) |
| Spouse(s) | Erzsébet Szilágyi |
| Profession | economist, academic professor |
Miklós Németh [ˈmikloːʃ ˈneːmɛt] (born 14 January 1948, in Monok, Hungary) is a Hungarian economist and politician, who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 24 November 1988 to 23 May 1990. He was one of the leaders of the Socialist Workers' Party, Hungary's Communist party, in the tumultuous years that led to the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe. He was the last Communist Prime Minister of Hungary.
Németh was born into a poor Catholic peasant family on 14 January 1948 in Monok, the birthplace of revolutionary Lajos Kossuth. He was of Swabian origin on maternal side, the Stajzs were settled down by the aristocrat Károlyi family in the 18th century. Németh's grandfather was deported from Monok to the Soviet Union in autumn 1944, where from he returned home only in 1951, while his father, András Németh, a devout Catholic fought in the Battle of Voronezh and survived the disaster at Don River. He returned to Hungary in 1946. That kind of dual identity was present in Németh's political life, the Christian family background behind his Communist party career. For instance, when he married Erzsébet Szilágyi in 1971, there were also a church wedding after civil marriage. Németh was 8 years old during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He had just isolated experiences about the events; his parents listened Radio Free Europe, 1848 flags were erected in the main square of the village, and the local party secretary was arrested and freedom fighters forced him to recite Lord's Prayer. Németh could not have known the whole truth of the events due state propaganda and concealment until his studies in the United States.
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