Jenő Landler
Jenő Landler (November 23, 1875 – February 25, 1928) was a Hungarian politician and socialist leader.
Jenő Landler | |
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![]() Landler in 1919 | |
Born | |
Died | February 25, 1928 52) | (aged
Resting place | Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow |
Nationality | Hungarian |
Political party | Hungarian Communist Party Hungarian Social Democratic Party (before 1918) |
Parent(s) | Adolf Landler Gizella Spitzer |
Born in to a Jewish family, he studied to be a lawyer[1] and was drawn to the Social Democratic Party through his involvement in the ironworker's trade union movement. However, he kept moving politically to the left and became a Communist. After the Hungarian Revolution of 1919, he became people's commissar of interior affairs in the new communist government. He was also a commander of the Hungarian Red Army[2] fighting the foreign troops of the interventionists. After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic he emigrated to Austria[3] where he continued to be a leader of the exiled Hungarian communist movement.
Jenő Landler died in 1928 in exile in Cannes. His ashes were brought to Moscow and placed in the Kremlin wall.[4]
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