Ságvári Ágnes (szerk.): Budapest. The History of a Capital (Budapest, 1975)

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Proclamation on the formation of the Budapest National Committee and the appointment of the mayor January 22nd, 1945

To the people of the City of Budapest!

A Budapest National Committee has been set up, composed of delegates of the Independent Smallholders’, Farm-workers’ and Civic Party, the Hungarian Communist Party, the National Peasant Party, the Trade Unions and the Social Democratic Party, and this Committee will exercise power in the liberated territory of the City of Budapest until the Hungarian Government assumes authority.

Dr. János Csorba, former member of Parliament, a resident of Budapest, has been appointed mayor of the City of Budapest with effect from January 21st, 1945.

The Budapest National Committee:

Zoltán Tildy, deputy, on behalf of the Independent Smallholders’, Farm-workers’ and Civic Party;

Zoltán Vas, deputy, on behalf of the Hungarian Communist Party;

Péter Bechtler, deputy, on behalf of the Social Democratic Party;

István Kossá, deputy, on behalf of the Trade Unions;

Ferenc Farkas, deputy, on behalf of the National Peasant Party.

Fővárosi Közlöny [Municipal Gazette], February 16th, 1945, No. 1. 111945.

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Minutes of the first meeting of the Committee of Five of the Budapest National Committee January 28th, 1945

Record No. I.

Drawn up in Budapest, on January 28th 1945, at the first meeting of the Committee of Five of the Budapest National Committee.

Present: Zoltán Vas (Communist Party), Dr. Imre Oltványi (Smallholders’ Party), Dr. István Ries (Social Democratic Party), Ferenc Farkas (Peasant Party), István Kossá (Trade Unions), Dr. György Gulácsy, secretary general, Dr. János Csorba, mayor of the City of Budapest, Péter Bechtler and Alajos Jámbor, deputy mayors. Zoltán Vas in the chair.

The following resolutions were passed by the Committee:

1. The mayor is instructed to secure the recognition of the district national committees as political and advisory bodies by the district magistracies.

2. There is an urgent need for the establishment of a people’s court and Ákos Major, former military judge with the rank of captain, is hereby appointed president of the People’s

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