Károly Peyer 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 who served as Interior Minister for six days during the end 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....

 in 1919. He was later Minister of Works in the cabinets of István Friedrich

István Friedrich

István Friedrich was a Hungarian politician and factory owner who served as prime minister of Hungary for three months in 1919....

 and Károly Huszár

Károly Huszár

Károly Huszár de Sárvár was a Hungarian politician who served as prime minister and acting Head of State of Hungary from 1919 to 1920.-Biography:...

. He took part in the consolidation policy of István Bethlen

István Bethlen

Count István Bethlen de Bethlen was a Hungarian aristocrat and statesman and served as Prime Minister from 1921 to 1931....

 in 1921: as the leader of the main opposition party (the Social Democrats) he compromised with the Prime Minister (the Bethlen-Peyer Pact). Peyer was called "betrayer of the left-wing" by the communists.

In 1947 Peyer was excluded from his party, so he joined to the Hungarian Radical Party, which organised against communist rule. Soon Peyer emigrated to the United States

United States

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. The next year the People's Tribunal sentenced him to 8 years.