Antal Dovcsák (March 11, 1879 – 1962) was a Hungarian

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politician and trade union leader.

Biography

Dovcsák was born in

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and was a lathe worker. From 1911 he was the president of the Central Association of Iron and Metalworkers in Hungary. He briefly served as deputy prime minister of the

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during July 1919. After the fall of the Soviet Republic he was also a minister in Peidl's government however he was later arrested during the White terror. He was released in 1922 during the Soviet-Hungarian prisoner exchange deal and settled in Austria where he worked as an official for the Austrian iron and metalworkers' union. Dovcsák died in

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in 1962.

References

1879 births 1962 deaths Politicians from Budapest Hungarian communists {{Hungary-politician-stub Hungarian trade unionists