Béla Jurcsek
Politician
1893 – 1945
Who was Béla Jurcsek?
Béla Jurcsek was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Agriculture in 1944 and Minister of Welfare between 1944 and 1945.
He was born into a landowner family. He attended secondary school in Nagykároly and studied economy in Debrecen. After that he went to abroad and also worked briefly in Germany. After the First World War he took part in the political life of Fejér County. From 1916 he was a member of the county's municipality and became chairman of the Alliance of Social Associations' group in Sárbogárd. He founded furthermore local organization of the Revisionist League. After that he went to abroad again. He became chairman of the Party of National Unity in Sárbogárd. He was elected a member of the National Assembly in 1935 and 1939 as a representative of the NEP.
In the Parliament, he gave speeches mainly in agricultural and social policy issues. He was a member of the party's committee which examined the "Jewish question" and of the special delegation which smoothed the differences between the House of Magnates and the House of Representatives in connection with the second Jewish law. From June 1940 to February 1941, he served as governor of the agricultural processing and marketing. Jurcsek also served as state secretary of the Ministry of Welfare between 1942 and 1944. He devised a scheme of delivery system which later was called after him as Jurcsek system. This program tried to improve the deteriorating situation because of the Second World War. The proplem had also appeared and experienced during the First World War, Jurcsek wanted to eliminating of the black market and hiding.
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