Jenő Landler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jenő Landler

Hungarian politician

Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1875

Place of Birth: Gelse, Zala County, Hungary

Date of Death: 24-Feb-1928

Profession: politician

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Jeno Landler (November 23, 1875 – February 25, 1928) was a Hungarian Communist leader of Jewish roots.
He studied to be a lawyer and was drawn to the Social Democratic Party through his involvement in the ironworker's trade union movement.
But 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 fighting the foreign troops of the interventionists.
After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic he emigrated to Austria where he continued to be a leader of the exiled Hungarian communist movement.
Jeno Landler died in 1928 in exile in Cannes.
His ashes were brought to Moscow and placed in the Kremlin wall.