Sándor Zöld 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...

 communist politician, who served as Interior Minister between 1950 and 1951. He followed János Kádár

János Kádár

János Kádár was a Hungarian communist leader and the General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, presiding over the country from 1956 until his forced retirement in 1988. His thirty-two year term as General Secretary makes Kádár the longest ruler of the People's Republic of Hungary...

 in this position.

He was born in Nagyvárad, after the Treaty of Trianon

Treaty of Trianon

The Treaty of Trianon was the peace agreement signed in 1920, at the end of World War I, between the Allies of World War I and Hungary . The treaty greatly redefined and reduced Hungary's borders. From its borders before World War I, it lost 72% of its territory, which was reduced from to...

 the family moved to Hungary, Berettyóújfalu

Berettyóújfalu

Berettyóújfalu is a town in Hajdú-Bihar county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. It is named after the river Berettyó.-Geography:It covers an area of and has a population of 16,107 people .-External links:*...

. In 1932 he joined to the illegal communist party with supporting of Gyula Kállai

Gyula Kállai

Gyula Kállai was a Hungarian Communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary from 1965 to 1967 and as Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary 1967–1971. He was President of National Council of the Patriotic People's Front from 1957 to...

. From 1942 he worked as a physician

Physician

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 in the Berettyóújfalu hospital. He was a member of the interim national assembly in Debrecen

Debrecen

Debrecen , is the second largest city in Hungary after Budapest. Debrecen is the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain region and the seat of Hajdú-Bihar county.- Name :...

 at the end of the Second World War.

In the Rákosi regime, he was appointed as Interior Minister. On 19 April 1951, on the party's congress, Mátyás Rákosi

Mátyás Rákosi

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

 criticized the work of the Ministry of the Interior. The next day the authorities found Zöld's dead body together with those of his whole family: two children, his wife and his mother. According to the official information, Zöld killed his family then committed suicide. He was relieved of his interior ministerial position on the day of his death, and he was deprived of his offices in the Communist Party. His ashes was buried in an honorary grave in the Kerepesi Cemetery

Kerepesi Cemetery

Kerepesi Cemetery is the most famous cemetery in Budapest...

on 1 June 1957, but the accurate clarification of the bygones was canceled.