Imrédy de Ómoravicza , Béla Vitéz.

Imrédy de Ómoravicza, born 29-12-1891 in Budapest to a Catholic family, the son of Dr. Kálmán Imrédy de Ómoravicza and his wife Karolina Imrédy, Imrédy studied law as a young man before he started working for the Hungarian Ministry of Finance. Eventually becoming a skilled economist and financier, Imrédy was made Director of the Hungarian National Bank in 1928. In 1932, Bëla was appointed Minister of Finance under the fascist Prime Minister Gyula Gömbös.

Gombos died after a long illness on 06-10-1936, age 49, in Munich.

He married Irene Imrédy and they had one son and one daughter, Thomas Imrédy de Ómoravicza; Dr János Imrédy de Ómoravicza and Andrea Burnus-Krauss. Thomas died 04-04-2002 (age 83-84) in Buenos Aires, Argentina (Argentinië) and Andrea died 23-01-2017 (age 88) in Haar (München). He had one brother and one sister, Dr Kálmán Imrédy de Ómoravicza, and Mária Józsa Karolina Júlia Suppan (Imrédy de Ómoravicza) She died 02–07-1918 (age 32) in Balatonföldvár, Hungary (Hongarije)

After resigning in 1935, Imrédy became President of the Hungarian National Bank. Extremely ambitious, Imrédy was known to hold right wing views on matters of domestic and social policy. On matters of foreign policy, Imrédy was pro-British, a sentiment which was to help him gain the position of Minister of Economic Coordination under Prime Minister Kálmán Darányi . Darányi died age 53 on 01-11-1939. When Darányi resigned in May 1938, Imrédy was appointed prime minister by Regent Miklos Horthy. Imrédy’s attempts to improve Hungary’s diplomatic relations with England initially made him very unpopular with Germany and Italy. Imrédy realized that he could not afford to alienate Germany and Italy on a long term basis, however, and in the autumn of 1938 his foreign policy became very much pro-German and pro-Italian. Imrédy also worked to gain a base of power in Hungarian right wing politics, founding the Movement of Hungarian Life. He was quick to suppress any rivals in his quest for power, and influential fascists such as Ferenc Szálasi

were harassed by Imrédy’s administration. Szálasi was hanged, age 49, on 12-03-1946. As Imrédy drifted further to the right, he proposed that the government be reorganized along totalitarian lines and enacted legislation that restricted the freedom of the press and caused many Jews to suffer economically. In February 1939, Imrédy’s moderate political opponents, angered at his growing compliancy to Germany and Hungary’s right wing, presented evidence to Regent Horthy that suggested Imrédy had Jewish ancestors. When Horthy confronted Imrédy with the evidence, Imrédy could not deny the claims about his heritage and resigned the premiership on 13-12-1939. Imrédy served in the Hungarian Army for a time in 1940, and in October of that year he founded the pro-fascist, Anti-Semitic Party of Hungarian Renewal. When German troops occupied Hungary in 1944, Imrédy was German Plenipotentiary Edmund Veesenmayer’s, died age 73 on 24-12-1977 in Darmstadt,  top choice to replace Miklós Kállay

as prime minister. Kállay died age 79 on 14-01-1967 in exile in New York. Miklós Horthy could not be swayed to accept the idea, however, and Döme Sztójay was made prime minister instead. he was executed age 63 on 22-08-1946. Imrédy became Sztójay’s Minister of Economic Coordination in May 1944, but he was forced to resign in August.

Death and burial ground of Imrédy de Ómoravicza, Béla Vitéz.

After German forces were driven out of Hungary, Imrédy was arrested and tried by a People’s Tribunal in November 1945. Found guilty of war crimes and collaboration with the Nazis, he was sentenced to death and also executed by a firing squad in the courtyard of the Marko jail

  in Háborús Bûnösként Kivégezték, Budapest on 28-02-1946, age 54 and is buried on the Main Cemetery in Budapest.

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