Sándor Zöld

Sándor Zöld (19 May 1913 – 20 April 1951) was a Hungarian communist politician, who served as Minister of the Interior between 1950 and 1951.

Biography Born in Nagyvárad (today Oradea, Romania), his family moved to Berettyóújfalu after the signing of the Treaty of Trianon in 1920. While a medical student at the University of Debrecen he joined the illegal Hungarian Communist Party in 1932, after being recruited by Gyula Kállai. He graduated with a medical degree in 1939, and worked as a physician in Berettyóújfalu from 1942.

Following the December 1944 election Zöld was a deputy of the provisional National Assembly in Debrecen, and also served as Secretary of State in the Ministry of the Interior. He was relieved of his duties as Secretary of State in July 1945, and went on to focus on organizational tasks of the Hungarian Communist Party in Szeged District. He was again appointed as Secretary of State in the Ministry of Interior in October 1948. In September 1949 he was elected to the Central Committee, and in May 1950 to the Politburo of the Hungarian Working People's Party, formed following a merger of the Hungarian Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party of Hungary. Zöld was deprived of his position as Minister of the Interior as well as his offices in the Hungarian Working People's Party on the day of his death. His ashes were reburied in an honorary grave in Kerepesi Cemetery on 1 June 1957.