Frigyes Puja
Frigyes Puja | |
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| File:Frigyes Puja (1978).jpg | |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary | |
| In office 14 December 1973 – 8 July 1983 | |
| Preceded by | János Péter |
| Succeeded by | Péter Várkonyi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 February 1921 |
| Died | 5 July 2008 (aged 87) |
| Party | MKP, MDP, MSZMP |
| Profession | politician |
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Frigyes Puja (2 February 1921 – 5 July 2008) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs[1] between 1973 and 1983.
He worked as a typographer from 1934 until the end of the Second World War. Then he entered to the Hungarian Communist Party. He was the Hungarian ambassador to Sweden between 1953 and 1955. After that he represented Hungary in Norway, Denmark and Austria. Between 1959 and 1963 he served as deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
After that he was the party's (then already MSZMP) Central Committee's head of the Department of Foreign Affairs. In 1973 he was appointed minister. From 1983 he served as ambassador to Finland. He had many publications about the Hungarian foreign policy. In 1988 Puja published his biography.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Hungary' 82, Pannonia Press, 1983, p. 92
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- 1921 births
- 2008 deaths
- People from Battonya
- Hungarian Communist Party politicians
- Members of the Hungarian Working People's Party
- Members of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
- Ministers of foreign affairs of Hungary
- Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1975–1980)
- Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1980–1985)
- Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1985–1990)
- Ambassadors of Hungary to Sweden
- Ambassadors of Hungary to Finland
- Ambassadors of Hungary to Denmark
- Ambassadors of Hungary to Austria
- Ambassadors of Hungary to Norway
- Member of the National Assembly of Hungary stubs