Wilmos Böhm ( Hungarian. Vilmos Böhm or German. Wilhelm Böhm ; January 6, 1880 , Budapest - October 28, 1949 , Stockholm ) - Hungarian political, military and diplomatic activist. One of the reformist leaders of the Social Democratic Party of Hungary .
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| Birth | Budapest , Austria-Hungary | ||||||
| Death | Stockholm , Sweden | ||||||
| Father | Hung Lipót Böhm | ||||||
| Mother | Rosalia Rosenzweig | ||||||
Biography
Born in Budapest , in a middle-class Jewish family; father - Lipot Böhm Hung. Lipót Böhm , mother - Rosalia Rosenzweig [1] [2] .
In the period of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, during the four-month Soviet regime of Bela Kun, Vilmos Böhm served as people's commissary for military affairs, commander-in-chief of the Hungarian Red Army .
Later he was appointed ambassador to Vienna . At the end of July 1919, he concluded an agreement with the Entente on the overthrow of the proletarian dictatorship in Hungary.
After the suppression of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, Boehm emigrated; since 1938 he lived in Sweden . In Stockholm, Böhm worked at the English embassy, preparing analytical reports on the countries of Eastern Europe, primarily in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, where he also lived in exile for 4 years. On behalf of the Horthy regime in 1943, Boehm led secret negotiations with the British to help the government of the Kingdom of Hungary avoid responsibility for participating in the war as an ally of Nazi Germany.
Bohm personally knew Raoul Wallenberg - the son of the richest family in Sweden. The Swedish historian Wilhelm Agrell, on the basis of his archival research, stated that in emigration Boehm was allegedly a double agent, working not only for English, but also for Soviet intelligence [3] . This led to a lawsuit against Agrell on charges of defamation by his great-grandchildren, Tomas and Stefan Böhm. The Swedish court found no grounds for satisfying the claim, although Agrell could not provide new evidence, except for the telegram, where Boehm is mentioned along with other government figures, encrypted under pseudonyms.
After World War II, Boehm returned from Sweden to his homeland, he again joined the part of the Social Democrats who were against the alliance with the Communists. In 1946 he was sent back to Sweden, where he became the first envoy of socialist Hungary. After the unification of the Social Democratic and Communist Party of Hungary, Boehm resigned as ambassador. On June 3, 1949, he was deprived of Hungarian citizenship, and on October 28 of the same year, he died in Stockholm.
Author of memoirs "Twice in emigration."
Notes
- ↑ RJ Crampton. Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century - And After . - Routledge, 2002. - p. 83.
- ↑ Böhm Vilmos . holocaustmagyarorszagon.hu.
- ↑ Soviet double agent may have betrayed Wallenberg
Links
- New secrets in the "Wallenberg case" . // Russian newspaper . - February 4, 2005 . (inaccessible link)
- THE JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA. Military service