Kemal Ekrem ( Hungarian. Ekrem Kemál ; October 20, 1924, Skopje - November 29, 1957, Budapest ) is a Hungarian electrician of Turkic - Magyar origin, an active participant in the anti-communist Hungarian uprising of 1956 . He was one of the rebel commanders in the days of the Budapest battles. Executed after the suppression of the uprising.
| Kemal Ekrem | |
|---|---|
| Hungarian Ekrem Kemál | |
| Date of Birth | October 20, 1924 |
| Place of Birth | Skopje |
| Date of death | November 29, 1957 (33 years old) |
| Place of death | Budapest |
| Citizenship |  VNR |
| Occupation | Electrical Worker, Member of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising |
| Children | György Ekrem-Kemal |
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Family and childhood
Kemal Ekrem's biography abounds with conflicting information. He was born in Macedonia , since childhood spoke the Serbian language . Baker Halik Ekrem, the father of Kemal Ekrem, came from among Turkish landowners. The peasant Erzhebet Ekrem, the mother of Kemal, was an ethnic Hungarian . Halik Ekrem died under unclear circumstances (according to various sources, he either committed suicide [1] or was killed by Serbian nationalists [2] ). Erzhebet Ekrem left the family. Some sources claim that she moved to Malta , where she was a singer, then a seamstress. Kemal was brought up by a grandmother from four years old.
In 1935, Kemal Ekrem came from Yugoslavia to Hungary , where he was reunited with his mother. In 1939 he traveled to Italy , visited Rome and Palermo .
Work and Conflict
In Hungary, Kemal Ekrem mastered the profession of mechanic, worked at the factory of the company Ganz . In 1944, he was persecuted on ethnic grounds by the Salashists , was evicted from Budapest .
After the Hungarian Communist Party came to power, Kemal Ekrem worked as an electrician in Budapest. He did not register Hungarian citizenship so as not to serve in the Hungarian army. It was considered politically unreliable, was under the supervision of state security . However, he filed an application with the Military High Commission and was a member of the party for a short time - until an audit was carried out, based on which Ekrem was expelled. After that, in 1949, he was evicted from Budapest and temporarily interned.
Since 1952 he worked at the construction of a power plant, then at a mine near Pech . He had a good professional reputation, received a relatively high salary. However, in May 1956, Kemal Ekrem was prosecuted for storing stolen property. The court sentenced him to 2 years and 8 months in prison.
In Rebellion
The evidence of Camille Ekrem's participation in the anti-communist Hungarian uprising is also contradictory. Most sources agree that on October 23, 1956, Ekrem was in prison and was released the next day. But there is an opinion that he initially went to the district military commissariat to support the regime of Hero - Hegedyush . However, the apparatchiks did not accept the support of the “purged from the party”, and then Ekrem joined the rebels [1] .
According to other sources, on October 24, 1956, Kemal Ekrem joined the rebels in Seine Square [2] . Along with Jozsef Dudash , Janos Szabo , Robert Ban , he became one of the leaders of the rebel defense in the II district of Budapest [3] . He held an extremely radical position, in the spirit of Dudash.
On November 4, the defense of the Seine and Moscow squares was broken by Soviet tanks. Kemal Ekrem tried to establish a radio connection with Belaya Kirai and coordinate the continuation of the armed struggle. He was seriously injured in a street shootout, spent a week almost unconscious, and then moved on crutches. He hid underground for almost two months.
Arrest, Sentence, Execution
On December 28, 1956, Kemal Ekrem was arrested. The Hungarian internal affairs authorities were confronted with a legal conflict: it turned out that Ekrem had not obtained Hungarian citizenship. A request was sent to Belgrade, from which they also reported that Ekrem was not a citizen of Yugoslavia . The trial was carried out in an “open order”.
Like Dudash and Szabo, he was previously sentenced to death as one of the most radical leaders of the uprising. Kemal Ekrem was sentenced to death on July 29, 1957 and executed exactly four months later.
Memory and Continuation
After the dismantling of the communist regime in Hungary, Kemal Ekrem is considered one of the heroes of the 1956 uprising [4] . It is especially popular among the Hungarian ultra-right .
The son of Kemal Ekrem - György Ekrem-Kemal was a prominent figure in the Association of Uprising Veterans and one of the founders of the far-right Hungarian movement, which is considered in modern Hungary to be the heir to the ideas of Salashism [5] .
See also
- Laszlo Rusnyak
- Andras Laurinets
- Tibor Zimer
- Gergei Pongratz
- Laszlo Ivan Kovacs
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Ekrem Kemál (1924-1957)
- ↑ 1 2 Ekrem Kemál unopened (unavailable link) . Date of treatment November 1, 2016. Archived November 10, 2016.
- ↑ SZÉNA TÉR, 1956
- ↑ Rácz Sándor által rendezett 1956-os kiállítás képei a Magyarok Házában - Ekrem Kemál
- ↑ Meghalt Ekrem-Kemál György