Miklós Kozma

Miklós Kozma
Minister of the Interior of Hungary
In office 4 March 1935 – 3 February 1937
Preceded by	Ferenc Keresztes-Fischer
Succeeded by	Kálmán Darányi
Regent's Commissioner of the Governorate of Subcarpathia
In office 12 September 1940 – 8 December 1941
Preceded by	Zsigmond Perényi
Succeeded by	Vilmos Pál Tomcsányi
Personal details
Born	(1884-09-05)5 September 1884 Nagyvárad, Hungary
Died	8 December 1941(1941-12-08) (aged 57) Ungvár, Hungary
Political party	Party of National Unity, Party of Hungarian Life
Profession	politician

Vitéz Miklós Kozma de Leveld (5 September 1884 – 8 December 1941) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Interior Minister between 1935 and 1937. He was also Minister of Defence for a short time in the cabinet of Gyula Gömbös. He attended the Ludovika Academy and fought in World War I. He was the supporter of Miklós Horthy from the begins (Counter-government of Szeged). He worked as head of the Magyar Távirati Iroda (MTI) from 1922 until his death. He didn't agree with the Prime Minister Kálmán Darányi's moderate policy, so he resigned the position of the Minister of the Interior.

After the ministership Kozma continued his radical politics, he wanted to attack Carpathian Ruthenia (Kárpátalja), which was part of Czechoslovakia yet, with the Rongyos Gárda, but the government talked him out of this plan. The Rongyos Gárda encountered with the Slovak army so, After they filtered through into the region. After the occupation Miklós Kozma was appointed as governor of Kárpátalja. He played an important role in the starting of the first Jewish deportation in Hungary, beginning with non-Hungarian Jews, including those who had escaped from surrounding countries into Hungary. Many of these deportees were soon victims of the Kamianets-Podilskyi Massacre.

References

• Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon

External links

• Newspaper clippings about Miklós Kozma in the 20th Century Press Archives of the German National Library of Economics (ZBW)