Ferenc Donáth

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Ferenc Donáth (Jászárokszállás, 5 September 1913 - Budapest, 15 July 1986) is politician, agricultural historian, publicist, member of parliament and parliamentary representative; husband of Éva Bozóky publicist.

From December 1954 he headed the Agricultural Department of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics and was appointed deputy director. In 1956 he was one of the reformers around Imre Nagy.

On October 24, 1956, he was co-opted by him and Géza Losonczy was the Central Committee of the MDP, which they immediately resigned in their joint letter. In court, his resignation as extortion was considered by the court (BHÖ 1). On resignation, the MDP represented the uprising suppression of the uprising. In contrast, he and Géza Losonczy urged the rebels to negotiate.

On October 30, 1956, he became a member of the newly formed provisional commission of the MSZMP. On November 4 he fled to the Yugoslav Embassy in Budapest. On November 24, he was deported to Snagov (Romania) with the KGB family. In 1958, he was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for the second indictment of Imre Nagy as the initiator and leader of the organization to overthrow the people's democratic state order. His family was allowed to return to Hungary after the trial, after 22 months, in 1958. In April 1960 he was liberated with individual mercy.

Between 1960 and 1976 he was a member of the National Agricultural Library, the Hungarian Agricultural Museum and then the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and between 1976 and 1983 he was a member of the Institute of Co-operative Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. From the 1970s, it was the interconnecting personality of the democratic opposition movement and the movement of folk writers; the first to sign the Charter of Solidarity between the Charter '77 and to organize the Bibó Memorial Book as a samizdat in 1980. In 1985 he was the main organizer of the monor meeting held with the representatives of the opposition groups. After his death on July 15, 1986, Szilárd Újhelyi, János Kis, Sándor Csoóri, Miklós Vásárhelyi said goodbye.

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 Council of Presidents of the High Court abolished Imre Nagy, Ferenc Donáth, Miklós Gimes, Zoltán Tildy, Pál Maléter, Sándor Kopácsi, Ferenc Jánosi, Miklós Vásárhelyi and József Szilágyi and abolished all of them in the absence of a criminal offense.