Béla Sulyok

Béla Sulyok
Born	(1904-11-21)21 November 1904 Budapest, Hungary
Died	1 March 1977(1977-03-01) (aged 72) Budapest, Hungary

The native form of this personal name is Sulyok Béla. This article uses the Western name order.

Béla Sulyok (21 November 1904 – 1 March 1977) was a Hungarian economist, who served as Governor of the Hungarian National Bank during the Communist regime from 1 July 1960 to 31 October 1961.

He was an official at the Hungarian General Savings Bank since 1923. He fought in the Second World War. He fled into the Soviet Red Army in 1944 and participated in "liberation of Hungary". He joined to the politics and took a part in the foundation of Szikra Press, which became the most powerful propaganda of the Communist rule. He served as deputy head of the Economics Department of the Hungarian Communist Party (MKP) for a short time since April 1945. He was one of the main perpetrators of the nationalization of banks in 1948. He functioned as Secretary of State for Finance until 1951. After 1961 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance. He had retired in 1968.

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Hungarian Biographical Lexicon (Hungarian)

Political offices
Preceded by Dénes Szántó	Governor of the Hungarian National Bank 1960–1961	Succeeded by Andor László

Governors of the Hungarian National Bank since 1924

Regency	Sándor Popovics (1924–1935) Béla Imrédy (1935–1938) Lipót Baranyai (1938–1943) Gyula Pósch (1943–1944)

Transition period	László Temesváry (Oct–Dec 1944) Imre Oltványi (Apr–Aug 1945) Artúr Kárász (Aug–Nov 1945) Imre Oltványi (1945–1946) Jenő Csejkey (1946–1949)

Communist Hungary	Ferenc Jeszenszky (1949–1952) János Vörös (1952–1955) László Háy (Apr–Nov 1956) Dénes Szántó (1956–1960) Béla Sulyok (1960–1961) Andor László (1961–1975) Mátyás Tímár (1975–1988) Ferenc Bartha (1988–1990)

Hungary	György Surányi (1990–1991) Péter Ákos Bod (1991–1994) György Surányi (1995–2001) Zsigmond Járai (2001–2007) András Simor (2007–2013) György Matolcsy (2013–present)

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Béla Sulyok

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