Sándor Zöld

Sándor Zöld
Minister of the Interior of Hungary
In office 23 June 1950 – 20 April 1951
Preceded by	János Kádár
Succeeded by	Árpád Házi
Personal details
Born	(1913-05-19)19 May 1913 Nagyvárad, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary
Died	20 April 1951(1951-04-20) (aged 37) Budapest, Hungary
Political party	Hungarian Communist Party, Hungarian Working People's Party
Profession	physician, politician

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

Sándor Zöld (19 May 1913 – 20 April 1951) was a Hungarian communist politician, who served as interior minister between 1950 and 1951. He followed János Kádár in this position.

Born in Nagyvárad (today Oradea, Romania), his family moved to Berettyóújfalu after the signing of the Treaty of Trianon. In 1932 he joined to the illegal Communist Party with supporting of Gyula Kállai. From 1942 he worked as a physician in the Berettyóújfalu hospital. He was a member of the interim national assembly in Debrecen at the end of the Second World War.

In the Rákosi regime, he was appointed as interior minister. On 19 April 1951, on the party's congress, Mátyás Rákosi criticized the work of the Ministry of the Interior and later considered to have him arrested. The next day the authorities found Zöld's dead body together with those of his whole family: two children, his wife and his mother. According to the official information, Zöld killed his family then committed suicide. He was relieved of his interior ministerial position on the day of his death, and he was deprived of his offices in the Hungarian Working People's Party. His ashes were buried in an honorary grave in the Kerepesi Cemetery on 1 June 1957, but the accurate clarification of the bygones was canceled.

References

• Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon