Jenő Landler
Landler in 1919
Born(1875-11-23)November 23, 1875
Gelse, Austria-Hungary
(now Hungary)
DiedFebruary 25, 1928(1928-02-25) (aged 52)
Cannes, France
Resting placeKremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow
NationalityHungarian
Political partyHungarian Communist Party
Hungarian Social Democratic Party (before 1918)
Parent(s)Adolf Landler
Gizella Spitzer

Jenő Landler (November 23, 1875 – February 25, 1928) was a Hungarian politician and socialist leader.

Born in to a Jewish family, he studied to be a lawyer[1] and was drawn to the Social Democratic Party through his involvement in the ironworker's trade union movement. However, he kept moving politically to the left and became a Communist. After the Hungarian Revolution of 1919, he became people's commissar of interior affairs in the new communist government. He was also a commander of the Hungarian Red Army[2] fighting the foreign troops of the interventionists. After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic he emigrated to Austria[3] where he continued to be a leader of the exiled Hungarian communist movement.

Jenő Landler died in 1928 in exile in Cannes. His ashes were brought to Moscow and placed in the Kremlin wall.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Jenö Landler 1875-1928 | Workers' Liberty".
  2. ↑ "Memento Park: An Audience with the Comrades | troublemag".
  3. ↑ "Jenö Landler 1875-1928 | Workers' Liberty".
  4. ↑ "Jenö Landler 1875-1928 | Workers' Liberty".
Tibor Szamuely, Béla Kun, Jenő Landler. Monument in Budapest.
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