Tibor Tollas

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Tibor Tollas (original name Kohlmann Theodore) ( Nagybarca, 21 December 1920 - Munich- 19 July 1997 ), "the poet, the National Guard chief editor, the emigration survival and the Hungarians for survival  speaker, successful organizer ". (Quote from Endre Medvigy).

His life
1920 . He was born on 21 December in Nagybarca, Borsod county. His father was Colonel Tamás Kohlmann József, his mother Jolan Kecskéssy. His mother's grandmother was Zsuzsanna Geleji Katona, the Reformed Psalm Preacher, István Geleji's Istvan Katona. Among his ancestors was Kossuth's soldier : József Kohlmann, Fleet Marshal Colonel, who fought in 1848 for the Austrian and Tsarese armies for Hungarian freedom.

He studied in military schools (Soproni Honvéd Reali School, Ludovika Academy ). In 1941 he was ordained lieutenant. In World War II and then for two years as a military officer, in 1944, he served as a gendarme lieutenant at the Jewish ghetto of Beregszás. In the spring of 1945, both hands were wounded.

In 1947 he was arrested for committing war crimes, the People's Court condemned him; For nine years she was imprisoned in the Collective Prison, the Prison of Vác and the Tatabánya Mine Labor Camp. He was liberated in July 1956, he allegedly participated in the 1956 Revolution as a liaison officer of the National Guard of Budapest, but there is no evidence to that effect. 1956. On December 1, he founded one of the most influential emigrant literature magazines with his former fellow slaves (Füveskert Group), the National Guard , whose forty years had been the editor-in-chief.

In 1958 he married in Vienna. Of his three children Tamás and Csilla were born in Vienna, Krisztina in Munich.

Among those, he is probably among the lucky ones who have survived the withdrawal of the Soviet troops and could temporarily or definitively come home from emigration.

1997 . died on 19 July in Munich.