Miklós Antal Imre Takács de Saár (Szombathely

Szombathely

Szombathely is the 10th largest city in Hungary. It is the administrative centre of Vas county in the west of the country, located near the border with Austria...

, Hungary

Hungary

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, 1906 – Szombathely, 1967) was a Hungarian politician and specialist in forestry and beekeeping.

Miklós Takács was born in 1906 in the Hungarian town Szombathely to Károly Takács de Saár and Terézia Leibinger. His father, a member of Hungarian lower nobility, was a carpenter and his mother, descendant of an old bourgeois family of German origin, was housewife.

Takács studied at the Academy of Forestry in Győr

Gyor

-Climate:-Main sights:The ancient core of the city is Káptalan Hill at the confluence of three rivers: the Danube, Rába and Rábca. Püspökvár, the residence of Győr’s bishops can be easily recognised by its incomplete tower. Győr’s oldest buildings are the 13th-century dwelling tower and the...

 and after his graduation worked as forest inspector first in Csepreg

Csepreg

Csepreg is a town in Vas County, Hungary. it is the largest town on the Répce River.Although tourism, particularly camping and fishing, are important sources of income for the town, a plan for the establishment of a metal finishing factory was accepted by the council after the first plan had been...

, then in Kőszegpaty

Koszegpaty

Kőszegpaty is a village in Vas county, Hungary....

, Nemescsó

Nemescsó

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, Pusztacsó

Pusztacsó

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 and Benkeháza. Between the world wars published a number of articles and essays on forestry and beekeeping in Hungarian and German periodicals.

In 1945, when Ferenc Szálasi

Ferenc Szálasi

Ferenc Szálasi was the leader of the National Socialist Arrow Cross Party – Hungarist Movement, the "Leader of the Nation" , being both Head of State and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary's "Government of National Unity" for the final three months of Hungary's participation in World War II...

's government had its headquarters around Kőszeg

Koszeg

----Kőszeg is a town in Vas county, Hungary. The town is famous for its historical character.- History :The origins of the only free royal town in the historical garrison county of Vas go back to the third quarter of the 13th century...

, Takács managed to have many Jewish inmates of labour camp in the service of the forestry exaggerating the real needs for labour, thus saving the life of many of them.

Upon the end of World War II, Takács became a member of the Hungarian Social Democratic Party

Hungarian Social Democratic Party

The Hungarian Social Democratic Party is a political party in Hungary. Both the MSZDP and SZDP lay claim to the same heritage: the Social Democratic Party which was part of a governing coalition in Hungary between 1945 and 1948, and a short period in 1956, which itself was renamed from the...

 and took part in elaboration of the agrarian reform in Hungary. In 1948 due to his commitment to democracy and rule of law Miklós Takács (along with Anna Kéthly

Anna Kéthly

Anna Kéthly , was a Hungarian Social Democrat politician. She was one of nine children born into a poor family in Budapest, Hungary. At the age of fifteen she started working in a garment factory but soon found more appealing work in the editorial office of a women's magazine and this gave her...

) was expelled from the Social Democratic Party which was under pressure to form a union with the Communists, an option strongly opposed by Takács and other right-wing Social Democrats. During the 1950s he was several times arrested and tortured by the State Protection Authority

State Protection Authority

The State Protection Authority was the secret police force of Hungary from 1945 until 1956. It was conceived of as an external appendage of the Soviet Union's secret police forces, but attained an indigenous reputation for brutality during a series of purges beginning in 1948, intensifying in 1949...

. During the 1956 revolution Takács took part in the reorganization of the independent Social Democratic Party, for which he was arrested after the fall of the revolution.

Takács died in 1967 in his town of birth.

Sources

• Népszava
• Kőszeg és Vidéke