László Háy

László Háy
Born	(1891-08-31)31 August 1891 Jászberény, Hungary
Died	27 January 1975(1975-01-27) (aged 83) Budapest, Hungary

The native form of this personal name is Háy László. This article uses the Western name order.

László Háy (31 August 1891 – 27 January 1975) was a Hungarian economist, physician and politician, who served as Governor of the Hungarian National Bank during the Communist regime from 17 April to 20 November 1956. He functioned as Minister of External Trade between 1954 and 1956. He was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA).

After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic he emigrated to Austria then Czechoslovakia. After that he lived in Germany and joined to the Communist Party of Germany. After that he worked in the Soviet Union. He returned to home in 1945.

Works

Hungarian Biographical Lexicon (Hungarian)
Éva Bárány-Szabadkai: Háy László. In: Magyar közgazdászok arcképvázlatai (ed. István Mihalik). Budapest, Neumann Kht., 2005.

Political offices
Preceded by János Vörös	Governor of the Hungarian National Bank 1956	Succeeded by Dénes Szántó

Governors of the Hungarian National Bank since 1924

Regency	Sándor Popovics (1924–1935) Béla Imrédy (1935–1938) Lipót Baranyai (1938–1943) Gyula Pósch (1943–1944)

Transition period	László Temesváry (Oct–Dec 1944) Imre Oltványi (Apr–Aug 1945) Artúr Kárász (Aug–Nov 1945) Imre Oltványi (1945–1946) Jenő Csejkey (1946–1949)

Communist Hungary	Ferenc Jeszenszky (1949–1952) János Vörös (1952–1955) László Háy (Apr–Nov 1956) Dénes Szántó (1956–1960) Béla Sulyok (1960–1961) Andor László (1961–1975) Mátyás Tímár (1975–1988) Ferenc Bartha (1988–1990)

Hungary	György Surányi (1990–1991) Péter Ákos Bod (1991–1994) György Surányi (1995–2001) Zsigmond Járai (2001–2007) András Simor (2007–2013) György Matolcsy (2013–present)

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