István Friedrich

István Friedrich
Prime Minister of Hungary
In office 7 August 1919 – 24 November 1919
Monarch	Archduke Joseph August as Regent
Preceded by	Gyula Peidl
Succeeded by	Károly Huszár
Head of State of Hungary Acting
In office 23 August 1919 – 24 November 1919
Preceded by	Archduke Joseph August
Succeeded by	Károly Huszár
Personal details
Born	(1883-07-01)1 July 1883 Malacka, Pozsony County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (now Malacky, Slovakia)
Died	Vác, Hungary
Nationality	Hungarian
Political party	Independence Party Christian National Union Party Christian Economic and Social Party

The native form of this personal name is Friedrich István. This article uses the Western name order.

István Friedrich (1 July 1883 – 25 November 1951) was a Hungarian politician and factory owner who served as prime minister of Hungary for three months in 1919.

He was born in the town of Malacky (today in Slovakia) and studied engineering at the universities of Budapest and Charlottenburg before reading law at Budapest and Berlin.

Being a "counter-revolutionary", he was arrested during the time of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, but managed to escape. On 6 August 1919 he took part in the coup that ousted Prime Minister Gyula Peidl. Appointed by Archduke Joseph, he served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 7 August to 25 November 1919 and remained Minister of Defence until 15 March 1920.

In the early 1920s, he founded an extreme-right-wing association, and was MP from 1920 to 1939.

He was supposedly arrested in 1951 by the Mátyás Rákosi administration; however, his further fate remains unknown. The proposed date of his death is 1958.

Political offices
Preceded by Gyula Peidl	Prime Minister of Hungary 1919	Succeeded by Károly Huszár
Preceded by Archduke Joseph	Acting Head of State of Hungary 1919
Preceded by Ferenc Schnetzer	Minister of War 1919–1920	Succeeded by Károly Soós