László Piros

László Piros
Minister of the Interior of Hungary
In office 6 June 1954 – 27 October 1956
Prime Minister	Imre Nagy András Hegedüs Imre Nagy
Preceded by	Ernő Gerő
Succeeded by	Ferenc Münnich
Personal details
Born	(1917-05-10)10 May 1917 Újkígyós, Austria-Hungary
Died	13 January 2006(2006-01-13) (aged 88) Szeged, Hungary
Political party	MKP, MDP, MSZMP
Profession	politician

The native form of this personal name is Piros László. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

László Piros (10 May 1917 – 13 January 2006) was a Hungarian communist politician and military officer, who served as Interior Minister between 1954 and 1956.

Career

Piros was born in to an impoverished peasant family. He fought in the Second World War, but he was captured by the Soviets at Voronezh (January 1943). After that he took part in the antifascist movements. Piros worked as a partisan during the end of the war. He was a member of the Provisional National Assembly.

Following the arrest of Gábor Péter, Piros led State Protection Authority (ÁVH) from 1953. As Interior Minister he reexamined the previous years' show trials.

During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 he left the country along with Ernő Gerő and András Hegedüs for the Soviet Union on 28 October, but returned to the country on 3 November. On 10 November, at the request of Hungarian dictator János Kádár, he was sent back to the Soviet Union, and he was stripped of his parliamentary mandate on 9 May 1957. He was allowed to return again to Hungary in August 1958.

From September 1958 he was chief engineer and from 1969 the director of the Pick Szeged salami factory. After his retirement in 1977 Piros served as chairman of the Csongrád County Council of Trade Unions for many years.

References

• Az 1956-os Magyar Forradalom Történetének Dokumentációs és Kutatóintézete Közalapítvány