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Gábor Vajna | |
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Interior Minister of Hungary | |
In office 16 October 1944 – 27 March 1945 | |
Preceded by | Péter Schell |
Succeeded by | Ferenc Erdei |
Personal details | |
Born | Kézdivásárhely, Hungary | November 4, 1891
Died | 12 March 1946 Budapest, Hungary | (aged 54)
Political party | Arrow Cross Party |
Profession | politician |
Gábor Vajna (4 November 1891 – 12 March 1946) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Interior Minister between 1944 and 1945. He made lot of orders against the Jews. After the fall of Budapest he tried to escape into Western Europe but the arrival American troops captured him with other members of the Arrow Cross Party's government. He was tried by the People's Tribunal in Budapest in open sessions and sentenced to death for war crimes and high treason. Vajna was hanged in 1946 in Budapest (on the same day, than Ferenc Szálasi).