Gyula Peidl 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...

 trade union leader and socialist politician who served briefly as the last prime minister and acting head of state of the Hungarian Soviet Republic

Hungarian Soviet Republic

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 in 1919.

In the six days his government ruled, he tried to minimize the damage caused to Hungary by Communist

Communism

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 rule. As Romania

Romania

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n troops advanced on Budapest

Budapest

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, he began to repeal and annul the unpopular decrees and measures of the Communists, restored private property, closed the revolutionary tribunals and dissolved the Red Guards.

On August 6, 1919, his government was overthrown

Coup d'état

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 by a rightist armed coup. Peidl went in exile in Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

. In 1921, Peidl returned to Hungary and resumed his political and trade union activities. From 1922 to 1931, he led the Social Democrat fraction in the Hungarian parliament.

Peidl died in Hungary in 1943.