Lajos Reményi-Schneller

Identifier: 000560
Dates: 1892-1946
Type of Entity: Person

History

Hungarian financial expert. He served as minister of finance from March 1938 to March 1945. He was one of the Germans’ most trusted men in Hungarian politics, he regularly informed the Germans about the Hungarian political developments. As minister of finance he significantly furthered the country's economic delivery for Germany. In 1946 the people’s court sentenced him to death and he was executed.

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Pénzügyminisztérium, Általános iratok (1867-1945)
- Papers of the Ministry of Finance (1867-1945)
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
- MNL OL K 269
- English
- 1867-1945
- 516 fasc., 35 vols., 73,841 linear metres
- Updated 10 years ago
The Holocaust was not only the largest genocidal operation in 20th century Hungarian history but also a gigantic campaign to systematically rob the wealth of Hungarian Jewry. In Hungary, the Europe-wide campaign of robbery usually referred to by the name of Aryanization had various initiators and a large segment of benefactors in society but it was planned as a state-directed and -controlled process with the Ministry of Finance playing a crucial role in it. Between 1938 and 1944, the Ministry was headed by Lajos Reményi-Schneller (1892-1946) who served as Minister of Finance under the succe...
Pénzügyminisztérium, Elnöki rezervált iratok (1871-1944)
- Ministry of Finance, Classified Presidential Documents (1871-1944)
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
- MNL OL K 256
- English
- 1871-1944
- 37 fasc., 16 vols., 5,92 linear metres
- Updated 10 years ago
The Holocaust was not only the largest genocidal operation in 20th century Hungarian history but also a gigantic campaign to systematically rob the wealth of Hungarian Jewry. In Hungary, the Europe-wide campaign of robbery usually referred to by the name of Aryanization had various initiators and a large segment of benefactors in society but it was planned as a state-directed and -controlled process with the Ministry of Finance playing a crucial role in it. Between 1938 and 1944, the Ministry was headed by Lajos Reményi-Schneller (1892-1946), i.e. he served as Minister under the successive ...
Reményi-Schneller Lajos pénzügyminiszter iratai, 1938-1944
- Records of Finance Minister Lajos Reményi-Schneller, 1938-1944
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
- MNL OL K 280
- English
- 1938-1944
- 14 fasc., 1,56 linear metres
- Updated 10 years ago
The Hungarian Ministry of Finance was headed by Lajos Reményi-Schneller (1892-1946) between 1938 and 1944, i.e. Reményi-Schneller served in this position in the successive governments of Darányi, Imrédy, Teleki (his second term), Bárdossy, Kállay, Sztójay, Lakatos and Szálasi. Reményi-Schneller even held the position of economic superminister (gazdasági csúcsminiszter) in the governments of Teleki, Bárdossy and Kállay. His policies were strongly in favor of Nazi Germany during the war years. In 1946, he was sentenced to death and executed as part of the Sztójay-trial. The collection contain...

Lajos Reményi-Schneller

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