Rudolf Földvári

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Rudolf Földvári (Kispest, 20 May 1921) was sentenced to prison for his participation in the 1956 Revolution. A citizen of Miskolc.

His parents were poor workers, so they were forced to live in Turkey between 1925 and 1927, as his father was only employed here. After returning home, he went to the Citizens' School and became a boy. From 1940 he became a locksmith, then a quality inspector, and eventually became an assistant. In 1942, he applied for military service, fell to the front, where he was captured in Soviet detention in December 1944, only released in the fall of 1945. On returning home, he became a member of the NPC and also secretary-general of the party party organization. In 1948 he was named the SZOD propaganda department. He introduced the Worker's Badge and organized the first Stalinist Worker in 1949. In 1951 he completed the party school and became head of the Department of Central Management of the MDP. Between 1952 and 1954 he was the first secretary of the MDP Budapest Committee, and between 1953 and 1957 he was also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly. In 1954 he participated in the Budapest party gathering, where many (including him) were defeated by Mátyás Rákosi, and were sentenced to punishment in the countryside.

On October 24, 1956, he joined the Workers 'Council formed within the DIMÁVAG in Miskolc, and later became a member of the County Workers' Council. On November 5, he was arrested and detained in Ungvár because of the revolutionary activities of the Soviets, from which he could only return on November 17. After his release, he was chairman of the County Council, then in March 1957 he abandoned politics and again became a locksmith in Kispest. On March 15, this year, he was expelled from the MSZMP and then abducted in May and sentenced to life imprisonment on 18 July 1958, without the possibility of an appeal. Released in 1961, he began to work as a locksmith again and became a technical leader. He retired in 1981.

In 1990 he was rehabilitated against the judgment, and from 1992 to 1997 he was a member of the presidency of the Imre Nagy Society. In 2010 he was elected a citizen of Miskolc City.