Földvári, Rudolf (b. 1921)
Communist official and 1956 revolutionary. Földvári, a qualified fitter, joined the Hungarian Communist Party (MKP) in 1945, and after completing a party college course in 1951, became deputy head of the Cadres Department at the Hungarian Workers’ Party (MDP) Central Committee. In 1952–4 he was first secretary of the MDP Budapest Committee, as well as a national Central Committee and Political Committee member. He was then first secretary of the MDP Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Committee. During the 1956 Revolution, he stood by the workers’ committee at the DIMÁVAG engineering factory in Miskolc and was a member of the county workers’ committee. On November 5, the Soviets deported him to Uzhgorod (Ungvár), from where he returned on the 17th. He then chaired the county workers’ committee until mid-December and was chairman of the county council until March 1957. Thereafter he worked in a Budapest factory as a fitter. Arrested in May 1957, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1958, but freed in 1961, when he became a factory worker again.
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