B la Imr dy de Omeravica (18911946) was the Prime Minister of Hungary from May 14, 1938 until February 16, 1939. He was a member of the Party of Hungarian Life, a conservative political party. According to the memoirs of Hungarian regent Mikl s Horthy, who appointed and then fired Imr dy, Horthy had great admiration and respect for Imr dy, but had to fire him when, after becoming Prime Minister, Imr became extremely anti-Jewish. Like many other Hungarian politicians who were active before and during World War II, Imr dy was killed by the Communist government of Hungary in 1946.
A new cabinet was formed by Béla Imredy, eminent financier, who was regarded by the ruling classes as the strong man needed to manage the situation.
Imredy did, indeed, rule with a strong hand.
At the same time, however, he initiated certain political and economic reforms (a part of all large estates to be distributed to the peasantry, etc.) and undertook the limitation of Jewish activity in business and the professions.
Imredy's Cabinet was Hungary's answer to the threat of Nazi hegemony which had become imminent after the annexation of Austria by Germany in March, and which was increased by the growing National Socialist movement within Hungary, both among the relatively large German minority and among the younger Hungarian middle class.
In a largely agrarian country like Hungary, the Jews, formerly unable to settle on the land, had built up most of the industry and commerce of the country and were represented in the professions by a proportion which varied between 25 and 50 per cent.
At the beginning of November Admiral von Horthy, Prime Minister BelaImredy and Foreign Minister Koloman de Kanya triumphantly entered the new territory.
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