Image by sxx on Pixabay · Pixabay License
Key facts
- Regent
- Miklós Horthy
- Preceded by
- Döme Sztójay
- Succeeded by
- Ferenc Szálasi , (as Leader of the Nation)
- Born
- ( 1890-04-30 ) 30 April 1890, Budapest , Austria-Hungary
- Died
- 21 May 1967 (1967-05-21) (aged 77), Adelaide , South Australia , Australia
- Party
- Independent
- Profession
- Politician
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Géza
- Family name
- Lakatos
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Hungary
- Place of birth
- Budapest
- Place of death
- Adelaide
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Position held
- Prime Minister of Hungary
- Educated at
- Ludovica Military Academy
- Political party
- independent politician
- Languages spoken
- Hungarian
- Native language
- Hungarian
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military branch
- Royal Hungarian Army
- Military rank
- colonel general
- Image
- Géza Lakatos 1940.jpg
Show 4 more facts
- date of birth
- 1890-04-30
- date of death
- 1967-05-21
- Commons category
- Géza Lakatos
- start of work period
- 1928-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
~4 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Géza Lakatos de Csíkszentsimon (Hungarian title/name: "Vitéz lófő csíkszentsimoni Lakatos Géza"; in German: Geza Ritter Lakatos, Edler von Csikszentsimon) (30 April 1890 – 21 May 1967) was a colonel general in the Hungarian Army during World War II who served briefly as Prime Minister of Hungary, under regent Miklós Horthy from 29 August 1944, until 15 October 1944.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Géza Lakatos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.