Árpád Toldi

Identifier
000578
Dates
1898
Type of Entity
Person

History

Hungarian gendarmerie officer. On 26 April 1944 he was appointed the prefect of the city of Székesfehérvár and Fejér County. From November 1944 he worked as the head of Department XI at the Ministry of the Interior and he was appointed the government commissioner responsible for confiscating and redistributing Jewish assets. He subsequently became commander of the so-called Gold Train. He fled to Switzerland and he was arrested in the spring of 1945, but he was not held accountable.