Ferenc Jánosi

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Francis Jánosi ( Sárospatak, 1916 . January 13 - Budapest , 1968 . September 2 ) Protestant pastor, teacher, Deputy Minister of the Patriotic People's Front, the first Secretary General of the Petofi Museum of Literature, and Imre Nagy's son in law.

After obtaining a Reformed Pastor's Certificate in Sárospatak, he became a scholar at the Theological Faculty of the University of Halle-Wittenberg. In 1941 he obtained a Hungarian-Latin-Greek teacher diploma at the Debrecen University of Science. In Vajdacska, beside Sárospatak, he was a Calvinist pastor, then in 1943 he was called for military service and fell into Soviet detachment as a lieutenant-general of the camp.

He edited the Hungarian Newspaper issued by the Red Army during the war. His wife was the daughter of Imre Nagy, Elizabeth. They had two children: Ferenc and Katalin younger.

He was head of department at the Ministry of Defense of the Temporary National Government of Debrecen, then the first deputy of the Minister of National Cultures (1951-54). On October 23-24, 1954, he was elected Secretary General on the Patriotic People's Front Congress. (It was then that Imre Nagy said the speech about national unity, which was subsequently accused of nationalism). Between 1955 and 1957 he was the Director-General of the Petőfi Literary Museum.

After the 1956 Revolution and War of Independence, he was arrested and transferred to Snagov, then imprisoned for eight years in the Imre Nagy court. With regard to his lung disease, he received individual grace in 1960. From 1963 he worked at the Budapest Archives of the 2nd State (Pest and Nógrád County Archives). He died of an infarct at the events of 1968 in Czechoslovakia.

Ferenc Jánosi's memorial plaque, at the former residence of Orsó Street 43 On June 9, 1989, the Prosecutor General of the Hungarian People's Republic, raised a lawsuit against the convicts of Imre Nagy, and proposed the annulment of judgments and the acquittal of innocent convicts. On 6 July 1989 the Supreme Court Presidium Council of Imre Nagy, Ferenc Donath, Miklos Gimes, Zoltan Tildy, Paul Maléter, Sándor Kopácsi, Francis Jánosi, Miklós Vásárhelyi and Jozsef Szilagyi judgment set aside and acquitted them all offense otherwise.