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Imre Gyáni ( Kisújszállás August 16, 1913- Dunakeszi January 1, 2009), high school teacher, Hódmezővásárhely honorary citizen.

His father was Ignác Gyáni (1870–1953) farmer, his mother was Terézia Veres (1881–1962). His brothers: Ferenc Gyáni (1902–1974), Lajos Gyáni (1906–1991), Gyula Gyáni (1908–1963) carpenter and Gyán Gyáni (1910–1993), a secondary school teacher. In 1942 he married Margit Csáki (1920), a kindergarten teacher. Two children were born, Lajos Gyáni (1943), engineer-engineer and Gábor Gyáni, professor, historian, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Imre Gyáni was born in Kisújszállás in 1913, he completed his elementary schools in Battonya and Dévaványa, he graduated from the Reformed grammar school in Kisújszállás in 1933. In 1938 he graduated from István Tisza University with a degree in history-Latin-geography. During his university years, in 1937, he was a founding member of the Debrecen group of the March Front.

From 1940 he was a teacher and then deputy director of the Gábor Bethlen Grammar School in Hódmezővásárhely . From 1950 to 1957 he was the principal of the grammar school.

After World War II he was a member of the National Peasant Party (1945–1949), from April 1948 to national leadership. From 1946 he was a member of the Municipal Committee of Hódmezővásárhely. Between 1947 and 1949 he was the head of Szeged. From 1954 to 1957 he served as President of the Patriotic People's Front in Hódmezővásárhely.

On October 19th 1956, he was allowed to call the Student Parliament at Gethsemane Bethlen High School. 1956. On October 29, he was elected legally president of the National Committee. On November 1, he played a major role in the reorganization of the local peasant party organization.

He was arrested at the end of January 1957, first interned at Kistarcsa and then at Tököl. In 1958 the People's Court of Szeged sentenced him to 6 years in prison. He was first imprisoned at the Star Prison in Szeged and then at Vác . In the spring of 1958 he was forbidden forever from the teacher's career. Under the Amnesty of 1960 he was released on April 4th.

From 1960 to 1967 he was an external associate of the Agricultural Research Institute, and until 1981 he was the warehouse manager of the Bridge Building Company in Makó and then in Szeged . In 1982 he retired.

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