Miksa Fenyő

Who was Miksa Fenyő?

Miksa Fenyő was a Hungarian writer and intellectual, served as a Member of Parliament in the early 1930s, and was appointed Minister of Trade and Commerce under the short-lived government cabinet of Prime Minister János Hadik in 1918.

He was also mentor and friend to Hungary's second most important poet laureate, co-founded the most important periodical in Hungarian literature, and was an instrumental figure in the Hungarian Federation of Industrialists prior to World War II and its last Managing Director during the brief interlude between 1945 and 1947, whereafter he was forced to flee into exile out of concerns for his personal safety after being informed that Stalin wanted him and other petit-bourgeoise sent to Siberia.