Rezső Nyers
| Rezső Nyers | |
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Rezső Nyers in 1970
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| President of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party | |
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In office 26 June 1989 – 7 October 1989 |
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| Preceded by |
János Kádár (as President) Károly Grósz (as General Secretary) |
| Succeeded by |
Himself (as President of the Hungarian Socialist Party) |
| Minister of Finance | |
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In office 5 January 1960 – 27 November 1962 |
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| Preceded by | István Antos |
| Succeeded by | Mátyás Tímár |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
March 21, 1923 Budapest, Hungary |
| Political party |
SZDP (1940–48) MDP (1948–56) MSZMP (1956–89) MSZP (1989–present) |
| Children | Rezső Nyers |
| Profession | Politician; economist |
Rezső Nyers [ˈrɛʒøː ɲɛrʃ] (born 21 March 1923) is a former Hungarian politician who served as Minister of Finance of Hungary from 1960 to 1962. For a few months in 1989, he was the country's last Communist leader.
Until 1944 he worked as a printer. He joined the Social Democratic Party in 1940. After the unification of the SZDP and the MDP he served as substitute member of the party's Central Leadership. He became representative of the National Assembly of Hungary in 1948 (until 1953). He was appointed head of a department of the Ministry of Domestic Commerce. In this same year he started his studies at the Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences, beside this he was a student at the Kossuth Academy from 1954.
In 1954 he was elected member of the Central Leadership. During the András Hegedüs cabinet he served as Minister of Food Industry for a short time. He was member of the MSZMP's Central Committee from 1957 to 1989 and of the National Assembly from 1958 to 1989. After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Nyers also voted in favour of the death sentence for Imre Nagy. In 1968, Nyers drew up the contemporary economic reform package, the New Economic Mechanism, with Prime Minister Jenő Fock. After the failure of the reforms (because of the orthodox Marxists' strengthening), he largely went into eclipse.
Nyers was appointed to the directorial post of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Economical Institute in 1974. As a result he resigned from all of his political positions (excluding the MSZMP Central Committee). He became chairman of the Közgazdasági Szemle's Editorial Committee in 1976. During the late 1980s, as reform elements gained more ground in the party, Nyers returned to prominence as part of a younger leadership. He served as chairman of the National Assembly's Reform Committee from 1987. In 1987 he became a member of the government as Minister of State. By this time, he had become one of the leaders of the MSZMP's radical reform wing, who favoured establishing a full-fledged market economy. The inclusion of Nyers, the architect of the NEM, gave the reformers a large measure of credibility
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