Istvan Marián

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

After completing the three high school classes, she learned the radio and electrician profession. He became a member of the Communist Party in 1940, so the Romanian authorities were arrested and imprisoned. The II. he was released after the Vienna decision, but in 1943 he was called "untrustworthy" labor service. He escaped in 1944 and hid until the end of the war. After the war, in 1945 he organized the Antifascist Association of Transylvanian Hungarians. He graduated from the party school and was appointed in 1946 under the leadership of the Volunteer Country Brigade Movement. In 1948 he went to a college, after which he served as a training officer at Tata. In 1951 he became a regiment commander in Piliscsaba, and later in a year he was appointed head of the BME armored department.

1956 . On October 22, he spoke at the Student Union of the Technical University, where students were elected as their leaders, and was the main organizer of the next day's demonstration. At the time of the Revolution, he directed the National Guard of the University of Technology. He was also a member of the Revolutionary Defense Commission. At the time of the Soviet attack on November 4, Béla Király and the troops at his disposal retreated to the hills around Buda, where they continued fighting for a while, but after a while they were forced to give up the fight. He had been hiding for a while, and then believed he would not be retaliated by abandoning his hiding. 1957they wanted to sign it at the beginning of the year, but he didn't do it, so he was arrested in March. Together with the other Commanders of the Defense Commission, they were sentenced to trial and sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1963, due to the general amnesty, he was freed and worked as a technical inspector and later as a technical translator.

In 1988, he was one of the founding members of the Historical Justice Committee , and in 1989 he founded the 56 Foundations of the University of Technology. After the change of regime, they were rehabilitated together with the other '56 convicts. In 2003 he was elected as a citizen of Budapest. He died in 2004 in Budapest.

2005 January Ferenc Madl, President of the Republic 2004. December 27, he promoted posthumous sub-general. [1]