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Lajos Für

Hungarian politician and historian

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Lajos Für (21 December 1930 – 22 October 2013) was a Hungarian politician and historian, who served as Minister of Defence between 1990 and 1994. From 1994 to 1996 he was also chairman of the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF), the ruling conservative party led by late prime minister József Antall to his death in 1993.

Für was born in Egyházasrádóc. He participated in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. In later years, he was active in Magyar Gárda, a paramilitary organization which had connections to Jobbik and was described as neo-fascist. He died, aged 82, on 22 October 2013, in Budapest.

He was married with Friderika Bíró, with whom he had two children, Ágnes and Balázs. Ágnes was the wife of the Hungarian Fidesz-politician Tamás Deutsch.

A csákvári uradalom a tőkés gazdálkodás idején (1970)

Mennyi a sok sírkereszt? Magyarország embervesztesége a második világháborúban (1987)

Szabadon szeretnék sírni (1993)

Jobbágyföld – parasztföld (1994)

Magyar sors a Kárpát-medencében (2001)

A Varsói Szerződés végnapjai – magyar szemmel (2003)

"Ne bántsd a magyart!". Bartók és Kodály történelemszemlélete; Kairosz, Bp., 2005

Bevérzett mámor, 1956; Kairosz, Bp., 2006

Világjáró magyarok; 2nd ed.; Ligatura, Szentendre, 2009

Kárpát-medencei létünk a tét; Kairosz, Bp., 2010

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