István Maleter

Prešov, 17 April 1870 – † Pécs, 16 December 1933 / jurist, newspaper editor, academic teacher. ; ; He graduated from the Bratislava Lutheran Lyceum and obtained a doctorate in political science from the Pécs Law Academy in 1905. In 1905, he was also the mayor of Košice for a short time. After that, he went on a study tour of Western Europe for a few years. In 1910–1920, he was a teacher at the Prešov Law Academy, then to Košice, where he taught at the Košice Law Academy until 1922. From the early 1920s, he was actively involved in Hungarian public life in (Czechoslovakia), and was a leading figure in the Košice Freemasonry Lodge and the local organization of the Smallholder Party, and was one of the initiators of the founding of the Hungarian National Party. He edited the journal Magyar Figyelő until his death. His son, Pál Maléter (1917–1958), was Minister of Defense during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and was later executed together with Imre Nagy for this. ; ; His main works: ; The Hungarian Historical Classes and the National Idea, 1911, ; The Electoral Reform, 1912, ; The Athenian Democracy, 1913, ; The Problem of the Hungarian Minority in the Czechoslovak Republic, 1933.