Zoltán Rónai | |
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People's Commissar of Justice of Hungary | |
In office 24 June 1919 – 1 August 1919 |
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Preceded by | István Ládai |
Succeeded by | Ernő Garami |
Personal details | |
Born |
Budapest, Austria-Hungary |
16 August 1880
Died | 17 May 1940 Brussels, Belgium |
(aged 59)
Political party | MSZDP |
Spouse(s) | Flóra Peisner |
Parents | Bernát Rosenthal Ilona Klein |
Profession | politician, jurist, journalist |
Zoltán Rónai (born as Zoltán Rosenthal 16 August 1880 – 17 May 1940) was a Hungarian politician of Jewish descent and jurist, who served as People's Commissar of Justice in 1919 during the Hungarian Soviet Republic. Before the First World War he worked as a journalist of the Népszava and of the Szocializmus. He was a supporter of the centrist Zsigmond Kunfi. After the fall of the communist regime he emigrated to Vienna to joining to the Two and Half Internationale. Then he lived in Austria, France and finally Belgium. He published articles for the Szocializmus, using the pseudonym of Zoltán Vándor. After the Nazi invasion of Belgium he committed suicide.