István Friedrich was a Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 politician and factory owner who served as prime minister of Hungary for three months in 1919.

He was born in the town of Malacky

Malacky

Malacky is a town and municipality in western Slovakia around 35 km north from capital Bratislava. From the second half of the 10th century until 1918, it was part of the Kingdom of Hungary...

 (today in Slovakia

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

) and studied engineering at the universities of Budapest and Charlottenburg before reading law at Budapest and Berlin.

Being a "counter-revolutionary", he was arrested during the time of the Hungarian Soviet Republic

Hungarian Soviet Republic

The Hungarian Soviet Republic or Soviet Republic of Hungary was a short-lived Communist state established in Hungary in the aftermath of World War I....

, but managed to escape. On 6 August 1919 he took part in the coup that ousted Prime Minister Gyula Peidl

Gyula Peidl

Gyula Peidl was a Hungarian trade union leader and socialist politician who served briefly as the last prime minister and acting head of state of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919....

. Appointed by Archduke Joseph

Archduke Joseph August of Austria

Archduke Joseph August Viktor Klemens Maria of Austria, Prince of Hungary and Bohemia was for a short period head of state of Hungary, a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and the eldest son of Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria and his wife Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha...

, he served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 7 August to 25 November 1919 and remained Minister of Defence until 15 March 1920.

In the early 1920s, he founded an extreme-right-wing association, and was MP from 1920 to 1939.

He was supposedly arrested in 1951 by the Mátyás Rákosi

Mátyás Rákosi

Mátyás Rákosi was a Hungarian communist politician. He was born as Mátyás Rosenfeld, in present-day Serbia...

 administration; however, his further fate remains unknown. The proposed date of his death is 1958.