Győző Drozdy
| Győző Drozdy | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1 October 1885 Bajta, Kingdom of Hungary (today: Bajtava, Slovakia) |
| Died | 2 November 1970 (aged 85) Budapest, Hungary |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
Győző Drozdy (English: Victor Drozdy, Bajtava, October 1, 1885 – Budapest, November 2, 1970) was a Hungarian teacher, journalist, and politician.
His father was Gyula Drozdy the community’s Roman Catholic cantor-teacher, father of five children. He attended grade school in Esztergom, later he continued his studies by completing the training school after which he studied special needs education in Budapest. Between 1907 and 1919 he worked as a teacher. During this period he started journalism, his first column being published in Ottokár Prohászka’s newspaper titled 'Esztergom'.
He entered into compulsory military service at the outbreak of the World War I. After returning from the front in 1917 he became the managing editor of the ‘Budai Újság (Newspaper of Buda)’. He started his political career in 1918 as the secretary of the Independence and 48 Party. He was also a journalist for Mihály Károlyi’s newspaper ‘Magyarország (Hungary)’ while also publishing in the ‘Alkotmány (Constitution)’.
In 1918 during the Aster Revolution he was part of the negotiations revolving around the head of state with King-Emperor Charles IV, and came to be scrivener of the Hungarian National Council.
After the military collapse in World War I the surrounding countries invaded the historical lands of the Hungarian state. Drozdy returned to his home county in Upper Hungary where he organized the local populace into a militia and fought the advancing Czech troops. Meanwhile, in January 1919 he became the secretary general of the National Smallholders and Agrarian Workers Party led by István Szabó de Nagyatád.
On the elections in January 1920 for the Hungarian National Diet he was running in the county of Zala, as a candidate for the National Smallholders and Agrarian Workers Party. But before the second round the gendarmerie seized him, accusing him of collaborating with the communists and for his subversive actions in the Hungarian Soviet Republic era. Never-the-less Drozdy won the elections with great majority. In one of his first speech’s he strongly confronted the White Terror. He was one of the nine members of parliament who voted against making Miklós Horthy regent. He also spoke up against the Numerus clausus law.
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