Péter Zwack
| Péter Zwack | |
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| Hungarian Ambassador to the United States | |
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In office 1990 – April 1991 |
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| Preceded by | Péter Várkonyi |
| Succeeded by | Pál Tar |
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| Born |
21 May 1927 Budapest, Hungary |
| Died | 5 August 2012 (aged 85) Venturina, Italy |
| Political party |
Entrepreneurs' Party Alliance of Free Democrats |
| Profession | businessman (Zwack) |
Péter János Zwack (21 May 1927 – 5 August 2012) was a Hungarian businessman, diplomat and the Hungarian Ambassador to the United States from 1990 until 1991.
Zwack was born into a prominent family which owned the Zwack PLC. During World War II Budapest and the Zwack factory were completely destroyed. After the war, in 1948 the new Communist regime nationalized the factory. The Zwack family fled the country. János Zwack with his son Péter, great grandson of József Zwack, the founder of the factory, was able to escape with the original Zwack recipe in his pocket. Béla Zwack remained behind to give the communist government a “fake” Zwack recipe and went on to become a regular factory worker.
Meanwhile, János and Péter migrated to the United States and after several months in Ellis Island’s refugee camp were granted US entry purely because they possessed the Zwack recipe. They later settled in the Bronx in 1949 when Péter was 22 years old. It was in the U.S. that Péter learned all the ins and outs of the spirits industry.
Together with Tibor Eckhardt he founded a charity named First Aid for Hungary in 1956 which helped the refugees of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
Zwack became chairman of the Entrepreneurs' Party in 1992. Two years later he made an electoral alliance with SZDSZ, Fidesz and the Agrarian Alliance, according to which he was the joint candidate of the four parties in Kecskemét during the 1994 Hungarian parliamentary election. He won a seat to the National Assembly of Hungary as the only independent MP. He resigned from his party leader position in 1995. Between 1995 and 1997 he was a member of the Kossuth Prize and Széchenyi Prize Committee.
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