Baron Zsigmond Perényi de Perény (25 November 1870 – 18 March 1946) 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 in 1919. During the Hungarian Soviet Republic

Hungarian Soviet Republic

The Hungarian Soviet Republic or Soviet Republic of Hungary was a short-lived Communist state established in Hungary in the aftermath of World War I....

 he was arrested by the communists. He was the governor of the annexed Zakarpattia Oblast

Zakarpattia Oblast

The Zakarpattia Oblast is an administrative oblast located in southwestern Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Uzhhorod...

 (Kárpátalja) between 28 April 1939 and 12 September 1940. As Crown Guard he was a member of the House of Magnates, later Speaker of this assembly. In 1944 he resigned because of the appointment of the cabinet of 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...

 (fascist Arrow Cross Party

Arrow Cross Party

The Arrow Cross Party was a national socialist party led by Ferenc Szálasi, which led in Hungary a government known as the Government of National Unity from October 15, 1944 to 28 March 1945...

).