Imre Oltványi

Imre Oltványi


Minister of Finance of Hungary
In office 21 Jule 1945 – 15 November 1945
Preceded by	István Vásáry
Succeeded by	Ferenc Gordon
Personal details
Born	(1893-02-20)February 20, 1893 Bácsalmás, Austria-Hungary
Died	13 January 1963(1963-01-13) (aged 69) Budapest, People's Republic of Hungary
Political party	FKGP
Profession	politician, economist

The native form of this personal name is Oltványi Imre. This article uses the Western name order.

Imre Oltványi (20 February 1893 – 13 January 1963) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Finance in 1945 in the Interim National Government. He studied at the University of Budapest. Between 1920 and 1921 he was the secretary of the National Agriculture Association. He was a founding member of the Smallholders' Party. Towards the end of the Second World War he participated in resistant movements against the Arrow Cross Party government.

After the war he was appointed head of the National Bank of Hungary. After his short ministership he served in this position again. Oltványi was member of the National Assembly between 1945 and 1947. He served as ambassador to Switzerland between 1947 and 1948. After that he was the director of the Hungarian National Museum until 1950 and of the Museum of Fine Arts until 1952.

References

Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon

Political offices
Preceded by István Vásáry	Minister of Finance 1945	Succeeded by Ferenc Gordon

Ministers of Finance of Hungary (since 1848)

Revolution of 1848	Kossuth Batthyány Duschek

Kingdom of Hungary	Lónyay Kerkapoly Szlávy Ghyczy Széll Tisza Szapáry Tisza Wekerle Sr. Lukács Fejérváry Hegedűs Wekerle Sr. Lukács Teleszky Gratz Wekerle Sr. Popovics

Transition period	M. Károlyi Szende J. Varga Székely and Lengyel Székely Miákits Peidl Grünn Korányi

Regency	Hegedüs Hegyeshalmi Bethlen Kállay Walko Korányi Bud Wekerle Jr. G. Károlyi Korányi Imrédy Fabinyi Reményi-Schneller

Transition period	Vásáry Oltványi Gordon Rácz Nyárádi Gerő

Communist Hungary	Kossa Olt Kossa Antos Nyers Tímár Vályi Faluvégi Hetényi Medgyessy Villányi Békesi

Republic of Hungary	Rabár Kupa Szabó Békesi Bokros Medgyessy Járai M. Varga László Draskovics Veres Oszkó Matolcsy M. Varga

Governors of the Hungarian National Bank since 1924

Regency	Sándor Popovics (1924–1935) Béla Imrédy (1935–1938) Lipót Baranyai (1938–1943) Gyula Pósch (1943–1944)

Transition period	László Temesváry (Oct–Dec 1944) Imre Oltványi (Apr–Aug 1945) Artúr Kárász (Aug–Nov 1945) Imre Oltványi (1945–1946) Jenő Csejkey (1946–1949)

Communist Hungary	Ferenc Jeszenszky (1949–1952) János Vörös (1952–1955) László Háy (Apr–Nov 1956) Dénes Szántó (1956–1960) Béla Sulyok (1960–1961) Andor László (1961–1975) Mátyás Tímár (1975–1988) Ferenc Bartha (1988–1990)

Hungary	György Surányi (1990–1991) Péter Ákos Bod (1991–1994) György Surányi (1995–2001) Zsigmond Járai (2001–2007) András Simor (2007–2013) György Matolcsy (2013–present)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 121405494 BNF: cb16523338h (data)

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