Sándor Simonyi-Semadam

Sándor Simonyi-Semadam
Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary
In office
15 March 1920  19 July 1920
Monarch Miklós Horthy
as Regent
Preceded by Károly Huszár
Succeeded by Pál Teleki
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
February 18, 1920  August 16, 1922
Personal details
Born (1864-03-23)23 March 1864
Csesznek, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire
Died 4 June 1946(1946-06-04) (aged 82)
Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
Nationality Hungarian
Political party KNEP
Profession politician, lawyer
The native form of this personal name is Simonyi-Semadam Sándor. This article uses the Western name order.

Sándor Simonyi-Semadam (23 March 1864 – 4 June 1946) was a Hungarian politician who served as prime minister for a few months in 1920. He signed the Treaty of Trianon after World War I on 4 June 1920. By this treaty Hungary lost a considerable part of its territory. Simonyi was a member of the Hungarian-Nippon Society, a society for creating cultural links between Japan and Hungary.

After his term as prime minister he was involved in the financial sector. He was a board member of various banks . His daughter, Erzsébet Simonyi-Semadam had a son, Ernő Simonyi, a prominent lawyer, and Károly Simonyi, a nuclear physicist and university professor (father of Charles Simonyi) was raised as an adopted child.

On 4 June 1946, the twenty-sixth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Trianon, Simonyi-Semadam died at his home in Budapest.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Károly Huszár
Prime Minister of Hungary
1920
Succeeded by
Pál Teleki
Preceded by
József Somssich
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Acting

1920
Preceded by
Ödön Beniczky
Minister of the Interior
Acting

1920
Succeeded by
Mihály Dömötör


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