Gyula Lengyel

Gyula Lengyel
Minister of Finance of Hungary
In office 3 April 1919 – 24 June 1919
Preceded by	Jenő Varga
Succeeded by	Béla Székely
Personal details
Born	8 October 1888 Szatmárnémeti, Austria-Hungary
Died	1941 Soviet Union
Political party	MSZDP, Communist Party of Hungary
Profession	politician, economist

Gyula Lengyel (8 October 1888 – 1941) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Finance in 1919 (with Béla Székely). For all of the Hungarian Soviet Republic's economic policy, he arranged the conceptual and practical forming of his financial policy inside this, and the organizing of the public supply. After the fall of the communist regime he emigrated to Austria. His many economic and political study was revealed in these years. In 1922 Lengyel moved into Berlin, and here he became colleague of the Soviet representation of foreign trade, and leader of the economic-political department then.

From 1925 he collaborated in the development of the whole Soviet foreign trade as the member of a most considerable Soviet economic foreign representation's council in the then one. From 1930 he lived in the Soviet Union. He expounded a specialist and political-performing activity with a wide circle. Lengyel was arrested in 1937 by the Soviet authorities. Later he was executed.

References

• Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon