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Place of Birth: Pápa, Veszprém County, Hungary
About Andor Lázár
- Andor Lázár (8 March 1882 – 12 June 1971) was a Hungarian politician and jurist, who served as Minister of Justice between 1932 and 1938. He was born into a Hungarian Calvinist family of noble origin in Pápa.
- He learnt at the Calvinist College of Pápa and finished law studies in Budapest.
- During his field trips he visited most of the countries of Europe, but he also went to Canada and the United States.
- From 1906 he flourished as practitioner and soon he became one of the most considerable and noted lawyers in the capital city.
- He hulled valuable literature works under his economic studies.
- His acknowledged writings are the Economic-political studies, the Economy of Austria in the beginnings of the 19th century, The Austrian devaluation and the German and Polish devaluation. Lázár had a significant role in the foundation of the Hungarian State Banknote Press and creating of the Defence League of the Hungarian Territorial Integrity.
- His political career was started in the early 1930s, he was a supporter of Gyula Gömbös.
- He served as state secretary of the Ministry of Defence in 1931.
- He represented the city of Debrecen from 1931 until 1939 as a member of the governing party (Unity Party then Party of National Unity).
- When Gömbös was appointed Prime Minister Lázár became Minister of Justice.
- Instead of the prime Minister's views he supported the conservative forces, as a result he could hold the ministerial position in the next cabinet, which was led by Kálmán Darányi.
- later he had conflicts with the radicalising Béla Imrédy so he retired from the politics.
- he continued his lawyer career. After the Second World War he could not start a political career again.
- He was interrogated about the Rákosi trial (during his ministership Mátyás Rákosi was arrested and sentenced to imprisonment).
- Although it turned out that Lázár had no role in this case, in spite of this he was interned to the Great Hungarian Plain in 1951.
- From 1953 he lived in Leányfalu.
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