Dr. Gyula Ferdinandy de Hidasnémeti (1 June 1873, Košice

Košice

Košice is a city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary...

 – 16 January 1960) was a Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 politician, who served as Interior Minister between 1920 and 1921. During the Sándor Simonyi-Semadam

Sándor Simonyi-Semadam

Sándor Simonyi-Semadam was a Hungarian politician who served as prime minister for a few months in 1920. He signed the Trianon Peace Treaty after World War I on 4 June 1920. With this treaty Hungary lost a considerable amount of its area...

's cabinet he was the Minister of Justice, after that (in the government of Pál Teleki

Pál Teleki

Pál Count Teleki de Szék was prime minister of Hungary from 19 July 1920 to 14 April 1921 and from 16 February 1939 to 3 April 1941. He was also a famous expert in geography, a university professor, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Chief Scout of the Hungarian Scout Association...

) Ferdinandy replaced this position to the Minister of the Interior. He reformed the county's franchise system.

Publications

• A vármegyék reformja (1909)
• A hadügyi közigazgatás reformja (1910)
• Az önkormányzati alkalmazottak felelőssége (1911) - awarded
• A község szociális feladatai (1916)