User:Tony24644/Lajos Szíjártó

Lajos Szíjártó (Szekszárd, January 11, 1896 – Budapest , September 30 , 1966 ) Kossuth Prize-winning Hungarian architect , diplomat , communist politician, minister of construction.

Lajos Szíjártó was born in 1896 to a working-class family in Szekszárd. From 1914, he was a factory calculator at the Ganz Wagon Factory, in 1915 he became a member of the trade union and the Social Democratic Party of Hungary. On November 24, 1918, he became one of the founding members of the Hungarian Communist Party. During the Hungarian Soviet Republic, he served as a commander in the Red Army , took part in the capture of Losonc , and then became the commander of the Nógrád county border guard regiment. He was a member of the Council of Five Hundred and the VI. also to the district council. After the fall of the Soviet Republic, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison, but in September 1922 he was sent to the Soviet Union as a result of a prisoner exchange.

He completed the six-month party school and then obtained an architectural engineering diploma. He worked on large-scale industrial constructions and then became the construction director of the Ministry of Electrical Works. After the Second World War, he returned home in May 1948, and served as a consultant to the Construction Directorate, then the general manager of the Factory Construction Industry Center, and participated in the organization of the Ministry of Construction. From May to June 1949, he was a department head and then a group leader at the Ministry of Construction and Public Works. In May 1950, he became the State Secretary for Construction, and in January 1951, he became the first deputy of the Minister of Construction László Sándor. In 1951, he was awarded the Kossuth Prize.

On October 6, 1951, after the acquittal of Sándor, he was appointed Minister of Construction in the Dobi government. He held his position in the Rákosi government, the first Imre Nagy government, the Hegedüs government and the second Imre Nagy government, until October 27, 1956. After the suppression of the revolution, he entered the diplomatic field, from October 1957 to December 1963, he was the accredited ambassador of Hungary to Sudan, Ethiopia and Yemen in Cairo. He died in 1966 in Budapest.

Order of Merit of the Hungarian People's Republic, IV. degree (1950) Order of Merit of the Hungarian People's Republic, III. degree (1950) Order of Merit of the Red Banner of Labor (1954) Order of Merit of the Red Banner of Labor (1956)