Veres Gábor szerk.: Agria 46. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2010)

Nagy Nándor: A Hatvany-család a szélsőjobboldali sajtó kereszttüzében (1938)

Nándor Nagy The Hatvany family in the crossfire of the extreme right press (1938) The Hatvany family played an important role in the life of Hatvan from the end of the 1860s up until 1945, having a significant positive impact on the economicsocial progress of the once underdeveloped settlement. The family was an active participant in the settlement's everyday life, not only because of their huge lands, but through the enterprise, Hatvani Cukorgyár (sugar works), employing people in the greatest number. The decisive members of the family, like József and Sándor Hatvany-Deutsch, then after their death Endre Hatvany took part in the local public life on a regular basis as a member of the town's body of representatives. However, the Jewish origin of the family made the extreme right-wing parties and their media see red - so primarily after World War 1 - the mentioned papers attempted at every given opportunity to have a go at the members of the Hatvany family, and on the activities of economic interests closely related to the family. The said process became more intense in the beginning of 1938, when national public life had a swing to the right and the Hatvany family had to suffer from continuous attacks from the Arrow-Cross, Hungarian Nazis or the far right, close to the governing party. These fights had on many occasions a direct bearing on the life of Hatvan as a municipality. At the end of the thirties papers with extreme intonation were sold in significant numbers, so their impact on the public could not at all be neglected. This study intends to show a few characteristic episodes of these press debates from the 1938-1939 period. 273