Gábor Földes

From the Hungarian Wikipedia page

Gabor Foldes ( Budapest, 1923 . May 31 - Győr , 1958 . January 15 ) Jászai Mari-winning Hungarian actor , director , of the 1956 Revolution martyr.

He graduated from the Keszthely Premontre Secondary Grammar School and graduated as Actress at the Academy of Theater and Film in 1949. He was then an actor at the Honvéd and Mining Theater, later a principal director at the Kisfaludy Theater in Győr. In 1945 he became a member of the Hungarian Communist Party and joined the MDP. In 1951 he got married, and had a child.

In 1953, he became the prime minister of reforming Imre Nagy. He participated in several debates of the Petőfi Circuit in Budapest, which led to the development of the Petőfi Circle in Győr.

After the revolution broke out in Budapest, similar moves started in Győr. On October 25, a demonstration was held, in which the other members of the theater participated in Földes. He also spoke in which he believed in Imre Nagy and his politics, and demanded the immediate withdrawal of Soviet troops for the sovereignty of the country. Before the county jail, they fired at the crowd and then tried to stop the bloodshed at all costs.

The following day he attended the formation of the Győr National Council, where he became chairman of the intellectual council. In the afternoon Attila Szigethy instructed him to take the lead in further bloodshed in Mosonmagyaróvár. As he talked to the soldiers in the barracks, the crowd poured into the gate. He tried to gain strength from several places. He was arrested by the deputy commander of the commander who had been handed over to the national council at the town hall and two other military officers - at their request - took his vehicle to Győr. On 27, they were entrusted with the political control of radio broadcasts in Győr.

On October 28, Attila Szigethy resigned from his position as a result of an extreme demonstration that he temporarily retired and returned to political life only after the Soviet troops attacked on 4 November. He picked up the contact with the editors of the Hungarian page and wrote articles. With theater events she tried to keep the idea of ​​the revolution up. (Last premiere of 1957 . On 16 April it was. Guy de Maupassant landlady at the border organized by piece.) For these reasons, 1957. Arrested on May 3, he was sentenced to death. In vain, there were many famous actor of Hungary, the verdict was issued in 1958. on January 15th.

In 1990, as with the other '56 convicts, he was rehabilitated.