Category:István Szirmai

**István Szirmai**
	Hungarian politician (1906-1969) Szirmai István 1961-ben a szegedi József Attila Tudományegyetemen 1961-ben, Kádár János látogatásakor
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Date of birth	13 April 1906; Zalău
Date of death	29 September 1969; Budapest
Country of citizenship	Hungary;
Occupation	politician; journalist;
Member of political party	Hungarian Working People's Party; Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party; Hungarian Communist Party; Békepárt;
Position held	member of the National Assembly of Hungary (1945–1949); member of the National Assembly of Hungary (1949–1953); member of the National Assembly of Hungary (1958–1969); member of Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (1957–1969);
Native language	Hungarian;
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István Szirmai, (April 13, 1906–September 29, 1969), was a Hungarian communist politician born in Transsylvania, member of the illegal communist parties in Romania and in Hungary. After the crushing of the 1956 revolution he was a member of the Polibüro of the Socialist Workers' Party, leader of the Department for Agitation and Propaganda, repsonsible for the centralized control of press and media.