Döme Sztójay (1883–1946)
Army officer and politician. He was in staff positions from 1910 onwards and then head of intelligence and counter-intelligence during the 1918–19 revolutions and brief Hungarian Soviet Republic. He then joined the National Army of Miklós Horthy and became head of the intelligence group attached to the chiefs of staff. He was appointed military attaché at the Hungarian Legation in Berlin in 1925 and ambassador in Berlin in 1935. He was appointed prime minister and concurrently foreign minister at the Germans’ behest after their occupation of Hungary on March 22, 1944, but Horthy dismissed him in August. He was convicted of war crimes and executed in 1946.
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