József Haubrich

József Haubrich (9 November 1883, Detta – 1939) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Defence twice in 1919. He was one of the leaders of the Hungarian Social Democratic Party. During the Hungarian Soviet Republic he was a member of the communist cabinet, military commander of Budapest. After the fall of the communists, he was sentenced to death by the Regency. As part of the Soviet-Hungarian prisoner exchange, he was taken to the Soviet Union, where he spent the rest of his life working as a steelworker. On February 27, 1938, he was arrested on charges of espionage, sentenced to death on May 8, 1938, and the sentence was carried out on June 8, 1938. He was rehabilitated on October 17, 1956.