István Marián

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Stephen Marián ( Cehu, 1924 - Budapest , 2004 . December 24 ) Hungarian army, participant in the revolution of 1956 participants.

After completing three grammar schools, he learned the profession of radio and electrician. In 1940 he became a member of the Communist Party, and the Romanian authorities were arrested and imprisoned. The II. he was released after a Viennese decision, but in 1943 he was called an "unreliable" forced labor service. He escaped in 1944 and hid until the end of the war. After the war, in 1945 he organized the Anti-Fascist Association of Transylvanian Hungarians. He completed the party school, and in 1946 he was promoted by the voluntary Countrybuilding Brigade Movement. In 1948, he went to a school of staff, after which he served as a training officer in Tata .In 1951 he became a regimental commander in Piliscsaba , and after a year he was appointed head of the BME Armory Department.

1956 . On October 22, he spoke at the Student Union of the University of Technology, where the university students elected him as their leader and was the main organizer of the next day's demonstration. During the Revolution he directed the National Guard of the University of Art. He was also a member of the Revolutionary Defense Committee. At the time of the Soviet attack on November 4, Béla Király and his troops had retired to the mountains around the Buda, where they continued fighting for a while, but after a while they were forced to give up. For a while he was hiding, then he was supposed to have no retaliation, he was abandoned by hiding. 1957at the beginning they wanted to sign the declarations of officer, but he did not do so, so he was arrested in March. Together with the other leaders of the Defense Committee, he was brought to trial and sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1963 he was released as a result of general amnesty and later as a technical inspector and later as a technical translator.

In 1988 he was a founding member of the Historical Justice Committee, and in 1989 he established the Műegyetem 56 Foundation. After the change of regime, they were rehabilitated with the other '56 convicts. In 2003 he was elected a citizen of Budapest. He died in 2004 in Budapest.

2005 January Ferenc Madl, President of the Republic 2004. He was promoted to the posthumous Lieutenant General on 27 December.