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Count Fidél Pálffy
Ministers of the Arrow Cross Party government. Fidél Pálffy is in the second from left of the upper row.
Born	Fidél Pálffy de Erdőd (1895-05-06)6 May 1895 Szentgyörgy (Svätý Jur)
Died	2 March 1946(1946-03-02) (aged 50) Budapest
Cause of death	Executed
Citizenship	Hungarian
Known for	Politician and nobleman
Title	Minister of Agriculture
Political party	Hungarian National Socialist Party Arrow Cross Party

The native form of this personal name is erdődi gróf Pálffy Fidél. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Count Fidél Pálffy de Erdőd (6 May 1895, Szentgyörgy/Svätý Jur – 2 March 1946, Budapest) was a Hungarian nobleman who emerged as a leading supporter of Nazism in Hungary.

Early life

After service in the First World War he lived on an estate in Czechoslovakia before returning to Hungary, where he was left bankrupt by the Great Depression of 1929.

Pro-Nazi activity

He founded a group called the Hungarian National Socialist Party in 1933 and later merged it with two similar groups under Sándor Festetics and Zoltán Meskó. By 1935 Pálffy had assumed sole control of this group, although it failed to prosper as support drifted to Gyula Gömbös. Devoid of influence, Pálffy turned to Germany and became an agent of the RSHA. Seeking to regain the initiative he worked variously with László Baky and Ferenc Szálasi in an attempt to launch a pro-German party. He finally achieved this goal in 1941 by relaunching the Hungarian National Socialist Party with Baky, although the party was considered conservative when compared to the Arrow Cross Party.

World War II activism and execution

Pálffy was considered to be a suitable candidate to lead Hungary by the SS, although ultimately the choice was not approved. He also became an important contact for Wilhelm Höttl during his work on behalf of the SS in Budapest. Ultimately, as Minister of Agriculture during the period of Nazi dominance, Pálffy was held to be guilty of collaboration and was hanged for treason in March 1946. His execution did prove somewhat controversial however as, beyond his pro-Nazi writings and his membership in Szálasi's government there was little evidence of any crimes he had committed. Nonethelss Pálffy was one of the first members of the government to face trial and so the freshness of case, as well as his status as a member of one of the country's leading noble families, counted against him and so he was sent to the gallows.

References

^ Philip Rees, Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890, Simon & Schuster, 1990, p. 287
The Politics of Genocide – The Holocaust in Hungary
Richard Breitman, Norman J. W. Goda, Timothy Naftali & Robert Wolfe, U.S. intelligence and the Nazis, Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 266
Istvan Deak, Jan Tomasz Gross & Tony Judt, The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath, Princeton University Press, 2000, p. 243

Political offices
Preceded byBéla Jurcsek	Minister of Agriculture 1944–1945	Succeeded byImre Nagy

v t e Ministers of Agriculture of Hungary since 1848
Revolution of 1848	Klauzál Batthyány
Kingdom of Hungary	Gorove Szlávy Zichy Bartal Simonyi Trefort Kemény Széchenyi Szapáry A. Bethlen Fejérváry Festetics I. Darányi Tallián György Feilitzsch I. Darányi Serényi Ghillány Mezőssy Wekerle Serényi
Transition period	Buza Csizmadia Nyisztor Hamburger Vántus (opposed by Kintzig) Takács Győry I. Szabó Rubinek
Regency	I. Szabó Mayer I. Szabó I. Bethlen Mayer Ivády Purgly Kállay K. Darányi Marschall Sztranyavszky Teleki Bánffy Jurcsek
Transition period	Pálffy Im. Nagy Kovács Dobi Bárányos Á. Szabó Dobi Csala
Communist Hungary	Erdei Hegedüs Erdei Matolcsi Kovács Dögei Losonczi Dimény Romány Váncsa Hütter
Republic of Hungary	F. J. Nagy Gergátz J. Szabó Lakos F. Nagy Torgyán Boros Vonza Németh Gráf Fazekas Is. Nagy
Ministers of Agriculture, Industry and Trade (1848-1889)

v t e Far-right nationalism and fascism in Hungary until 1945
Political parties and groups	Arrow Cross Party Christian National Socialist Front Hungarian National Defence Association Hungarian National Socialist Agricultural Labourers' and Workers' Party Hungarian National Socialist Party National Front National Socialist Hungarian Workers' Party Rongyos Gárda United Hungarian National Socialist Party
People	Gábor Andreánszky István Antal Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky László Baky István Balogh László Bárdossy Károly Beregfy Zoltán Böszörmény László Budinszky László Csatáry László Endre Ákos Farkas Sándor Festetics Imre Finta József Gera Gyula Gömbös Iván Héjjas Árpád Henney Miklós Horthy Béla Imrédy Győző Istóczy Andor Jaross Béla Jurcsek Gábor Kemény András Kun Lajos Méhelÿ Zoltán Meskó József Nyírő Fidél Pálffy Ottokár Prohászka Pál Prónay Ferenc Rajniss Jenő Rátz Lajos Reményi-Schneller Dezső Szabó Ferenc Szálasi Jenő Szemák Döme Sztójay András Tasnádi Nagy Gábor Vajna Charles Zentai
Related articles	Arrow Cross Budapest ghetto Government of National Unity Greater Hungary Gyorshadtest Kolozsvár ghetto Labour service Levente Associations Szeged Idea Treaty of Trianon Turanism First Vienna Award Second Vienna Award

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