Miklós Kozma

Miklós Kozma
Minister of the Interior of Hungary
In office 4 March 1935 – 3 February 1937
Preceded by	Ferenc Keresztes-Fischer
Succeeded by	Kálmán Darányi
Personal details
Born	5 September 1884(1884-09-05) Nagyvárad, Hungary
Died	8 December 1941(1941-12-08) (aged 57) Ungvár, Hungary
Political party	Party of National Unity, Party of Hungarian Life
Profession	politician

The native form of this personal name is vitéz leveldi Kozma Miklós. This article uses the Western name order.

Vitéz Miklós Kozma de Leveld (5 September 1884 – 8 December 1941) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Interior Minister between 1935 and 1937. He was also Minister of Defence for a short time in the cabinet of Gyula Gömbös. He attended the Ludovika Academy and fought in World War I. He was the supporter of Miklós Horthy from the begins (Counter-government of Szeged). He worked as head of the Magyar Távirati Iroda (MTI) from 1922 until his death. He didn't agree with the Prime Minister Kálmán Darányi's moderate policy, so he resigned the position of the Minister of the Interior.

After the ministership Kozma continued his radical politics, he wanted to attack Zakarpattia Oblast (Kárpátalja), which was part of Czechoslovakia yet, with the Rongyos Gárda, but the government talked him out of this plan. The Rongyos Gárda encountered with the Slovak army so, After they filtered through into the region. After the occupation Miklós Kozma was appointed as governor of Kárpátalja. He played an important role in the starting of the first Jewish deportation in Hungary in this quality of his, in these sense for which one all escaped onto Hungary like that Jew, at which official documents were not, it was conveyed to the Germans, who these Jews strafed at the Kamianets-Podilskyi Massacre.

References

• Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon

Political offices
Preceded by Ferenc Keresztes-Fischer	Minister of the Interior 1935–1937	Succeeded by Kálmán Darányi
Preceded by Gyula Gömbös	Minister of Defence Acting 1936	Succeeded by József Somkuthy

Persondata
Name	Kozma, Miklos
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	5 September 1884
Place of birth	Nagyvárad, Hungary
Date of death	8 December 1941
Place of death	Ungvár, Hungary