Kálmán Ghyczy Memorial Site

Kálmán Ghyczy (born Komárom, February 12, 1808 – died Budapest, February 28, 1888): politician, lawyer, minister, younger brother of Ignác Ghyczy. In 1833 he entered the service of Komárom County, in 1843 he became its parliamentary envoy, in 1844 its first lieutenant. In 1847 he was appointed personal chief and then palatine judge. State secretary for justice in the Batthyány government, Komárom parliamentary representative. In 1849 he addressed a laudatory memoir to Dénes Pázmándy Windischgraetz, then retired to his estate. In 1861 he was the president of the House of Representatives. Although he belonged to the resolution party, he tried to mediate between Deák and Tisza, and from 1865 he was one of the leaders of the center-left. In 1873 he broke with Tisza, formed the Centre Party, and then was Minister of Finance in Bittó's government from 21 March 1874 to 2 March 1875. After his resignation, he was again the Speaker of the House of Representatives until 1879, and from 1885 he was a member of the House of Lords.

In Komárom, on 31 October 2003, his newly made memorial plaque (the work of the stonemason Boldizsár Ryšavý) was inaugurated on the wall of the building on the site of his birthplace in Nádor Street. The original plaque, a work of the sculptor János Istók, was inaugurated in 1908, but when Komárom was taken from Hungarian rule for the second time to Czechoslovakia in 1945, the memorial plaque was smashed in the midst of the wave of anti-Hungarian atrocities and only the bronze relief survived, which was restored by András Csutöröki