| Speaker of House of Magnates | |
|---|---|
| A Mágnások Házának elnöke | |
 Longest servingGyörgy Mailáth junior 22 March 1867 – 29 March 1883 | |
| House of Magnates | |
| Type | Speaker |
| Member of | Diet of Hungary |
| Formation | 25 June 1848 |
| First holder | György Mailáth senior |
| Final holder | Jenő Rátz |
| Abolished | 28 March 1945 |
The Speaker of the House of Magnates (Hungarian: A Mágnások Házának elnöke) was the presiding officer of the House of Magnates, the upper chamber of the Diet of Hungary.
The House of Magnates was initially established during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, and existed with interruptions between 1848 and 1918.
List of officeholders
1848–1918
Parties Conservative Party Opposition Party Deák Party/Liberal Party/National Party of Work National Constitution Party
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
|
György Mailáth senior (1786–1861) |
25 June 1848 | 31 December 1848 | Conservative Party |
| 2 | 
|
Zsigmond Perényi (1783–1849) |
1 January 1849 | 11 August 1849 | Opposition Party |
| The National Assembly was disbanded (11 August 1849 – 6 April 1861) | |||||
| 3 | 
|
György Apponyi (1808–1899) |
6 April 1861 | 22 August 1861 | Conservative Party |
| The National Assembly was disbanded (22 August 1861 – 9 December 1865) | |||||
| 4 | 
|
Pál Sennyey (1822–1888) |
9 December 1865 | 22 March 1867 | Deák Party |
| 5 |
|
György Mailáth junior (1818–1883) |
22 March 1867 | 29 March 1883 | Conservative Party |
| 6 | 
|
László Szőgyény-Marich (1806–1893) |
25 May 1883 | 7 December 1884 | Liberal Party |
| (4) |
|
Pál Sennyey (1822–1888) |
16 December 1884 | 3 January 1888 | |
| 7 | 
|
Miklós Vay (1802–1894) |
17 January 1888 | 13 May 1894 | |
| 8 | 
|
József Szlávy (1818–1900) |
16 September 1894 | 3 October 1896 | Liberal Party |
| 9 | 
|
Vilmos Tóth (1832–1898) |
22 November 1896 | 14 June 1898 | Liberal Party |
| 10 | 
|
Tibor Károlyi (1843–1904) |
17 June 1898 | 2 October 1900 | Liberal Party |
| 11 | 
|
Albin Csáky (1841–1912) |
2 October 1900 | 19 February 1906 | Liberal Party |
| 12 | 
|
Aurél Dessewffy (1846–1928) |
17 May 1906 | 10 February 1910 | |
| (11) |
|
Albin Csáky (1841–1912) |
18 June 1910 | 21 September 1912 | National Party of Work |
| 13 | 
|
Samu Jósika (1848–1923) |
21 September 1912 | 19 June 1917 | National Party of Work |
| 14 | 
|
Endre Hadik-Barkóczy (1862–1931) |
19 June 1917 | 22 June 1918 | National Constitution Party |
| 15 | 
|
Gyula Wlassics (1852–1937) |
22 June 1918 | 16 November 1918 | National Constitution Party |
During the First Hungarian Republic the House of Magnates was replaced by the National Council. During the Hungarian Soviet Republic it was replaced by the National Assembly of Soviets. During the Kingdom of Hungary it was replaced by a unicameral National Assembly between 1920 and 1927. It was re-established between 1927 and 1945.
1927–1945
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (15) |
|
Gyula Wlassics (1852–1937) |
31 January 1927 | 8 March 1935 |
| 16 | 
|
Bertalan Széchényi (1866–1943) |
1 May 1935 | 3 June 1943 |
| 17 | 
|
Zsigmond Perényi (1870–1946) |
23 October 1943 | 3 November 1944 |
| 18 | .jpg)
|
Jenő Rátz (1882–1952) |
8 November 1944 | 28 March 1945 |
See also
- List of speakers of the House of Representatives (Hungary)
- List of speakers of the National Assembly (Hungary)
Sources
| Speakers of the National Assembly of Hungary | ||
|---|---|---|
| House of Magnates (1848–1918) |   | |
| House of Representatives (1848–1918) | ||
| National Assembly (1920–1927) | ||
| House of Magnates (1927–1945) | ||
| House of Representatives (1927–1945) | ||
| Provisional National Assembly (1944–1945) | ||
| National Assembly (since 1945) | ||