Gyula Lengyel

Gyula Lengyel (born as Gyula Goldstein[1] on 8 October 1888 – died during the great purge in Moscow in 1941) was a Hungarian politician of Jewish descent who served as Minister of Finance in 1919 (with Béla Székely). For all of the Hungarian Soviet Republic's economic policy, he arranged the conceptual and practical forming of his financial policy inside this, and the organizing of the public supply. After the fall of the communist regime in Hungary in 1919, he emigrated to Austria. His many economic and political studies were revealed in these years. In 1922, Lengyel moved to Berlin and became a colleague of the Soviet representation of foreign trade, and leader of the economic-political department then.

From 1925, he collaborated in the development of the whole Soviet foreign trade as the member of a most considerable Soviet economic foreign representation's council in the then one. From 1930, he lived in the Soviet Union. He expounded a specialist and political-performing activity with a wide circle. Lengyel was arrested in 1937 by the Soviet authorities. Later, he was executed in 1941 but later was rehabilitated.