The Presidential Council of the Hungarian People's Republic was the

collective head of state A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona who officially embodies a state Foakes, pp. 110–11 " he head of statebeing an embodiment of the State itself or representatitve of its international persona." in its unity and l ...

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Cr ...

during the Communist era. It was created in 1949, following the enactment of a new constitution that year that officially created the

People's Republic of Hungary The Hungarian People's Republic ( hu, Magyar Népköztársaság) was a one-party socialist state from 20 August 1949 to 23 October 1989. It was governed by the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, which was under the influence of the Soviet U ...

. Originally vested with broad powers during the interim of parliamentary sessions, its jurisdiction was limited throughout the moderate liberalization witnessed during the Kadar era. Along with the state itself, it was abolished on 23 October 1989. The Parliament of Hungary, upon the recommendation of the Presidential Council, elected and relieved the chairman and ministers of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic of their duties.

List of chairmen of the Presidential Council

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List of vice-chairmen of the Presidential Council

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Károly Kiss Károly Kiss (24 September 1903 – 3 December 1983) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1951 and 1952. He was a member of the Communist Party of Hungary since 1922. He was imprisoned for nine years beca ...

, 1949–1951 , - , István Kovács , 1951–1952 , - ,

József Révai József Révai (born József Lederer'';'' 12 October 1898 in Budapest – 4 August 1959 in Budapest) was a Hungarian communist politician, statesman and cultural ideologue. Life and career Révai was born to a Jewish family.Anne Applebaum, Ir ...

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György Marosán György () is a Hungarian version of the name ''George''. Some notable people with this given name: * György Alexits, as a Hungarian mathematician * György Almásy, Hungarian asiologist, traveler, zoologist and ethnographer, father of László ...

, 1961–1963 , - , Sándor Gáspár , 1963–1988 , - ,

István Sarlós István Sarlós (30 October 1921 – 19 June 2006) was a Hungary, Hungarian politician, who served as Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary between 1984 and 1988. Sarlós was born in Budapest. His parents (István Scheithauer, later Sarl� ...

, 1988–1989 , {, class="wikitable" ! Name ! Period , - , Dániel Nagy , 1949–1963 , - , Ödön Kisházi , 1963–1975 , - , Rezső Trautmann , 1975–1989

List of chairmen of the Presidential Council

List of vice-chairmen of the Presidential Council

See also