Teleki Pál

  • Teleki, Pál, gróf, 1879-1941
  • Teleki, Pál, 1879-1941
  • Teleki, Paul.
  • Tèleki, Paul 1879-1941
  • Teleki, Paolo 1879-1941
  • ...
Identifier
000405
Type of Entity
Person

Dates of Existence

01/11/1879

03/04/1941

History

Geographer and politician. Hungarian Prime Minister 1920-1921 and 1939-1941). Wrote the preamble to the Second Anti-Jewish Law (1939) and prepared the Third Anti-Jewish Law ( 1940). Signed more than 50 anti-Jewish decrees during his rule. In April 1941 committed suicide to protest Hungary's active support of Nazi Germany's invasion of Yugoslavia.

Places

  • Budapest, Hungary

  • Budapest, Hungary