Rezso Szabo

* May 10, 1929, Kolozsnéma, † Kolozsnéma, February 17, 2018 / Slovak Hungarian lawyer, politician ; ; He studied at the Papal Reformed College, then graduated in Komárom in 1948. He completed his law studies at the Comenius University in Bratislava in 1952. Between 1951–1954, he was a specialist lecturer, later its secretary, and then its general secretary of the Central Committee of the Csemads. Between 1959–1961, he was the editor-in-chief of Hét. In 1969–1970, he was the vice-president of the Slovak National Council. ; In 1968, he was one of the intellectuals who formulated the demands of the Hungarians in Slovakia in detail. He then fell out of favor, and in 1970 was expelled from the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and the Csemads. From 1971 to 1974 he was a manual laborer, from 1975 to 1981 he was a company lecturer, then a lawyer. He was rehabilitated in 1989, and in 1990 he was one of the founders of the Political Movement for Coexistence. From 1990 to 1992 he was a representative of the Slovak National Council, and again its vice-president. After the breakup of Czechoslovakia, he was vice-president of the Csemads from 1993 to 1997. ; ; Works: ; The Csemads and the Prague Spring, 2004.