TELEKI, PÁL, COUNT


Meaning of TELEKI, PÁL, COUNT in English

born Nov. 1, 1879, Budapest, Hung., Austria-Hungary

died April 3, 1941, Budapest

Hungarian politician.

An eminent geographer, he was a member of the Hungarian Parliament from 1905 and a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference (1919) after World War I. In 1921, however, he withdrew from party politics. He then taught at Budapest University before returning to office as minister of education (1938–39) and premier (1939–41). Hoping to use Germany's power to win back territories lost through the Treaty of Trianon (1920), he initially cooperated with Adolf Hitler . In 1941, caught between German demands for support after it invaded Yugoslavia (with whom Hungary had signed a friendship treaty in 1940) and British threats against helping Germany, he committed suicide.

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