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Title: Tibor Eckhardt Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1921-1972
Collection number: 80026
Creator:
Eckhardt, Tibor, 1888-
Collection Size:
24 manuscript boxes
(10 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, notes, memoranda, clippings and other printed matter, relating to twentieth-century Hungarian politics,
anti-communist movements in the U.S., and Hungarian emigré politics.
Language:
Hungarian and
English.
Collection open for research.
For copyright status, please contact
the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Tibor Eckhardt Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Anti-communist movements--United States.
Communism.
Hungarians--United States.
Hungary.
Hungary--Politics and government--20th century.
United States--Politics and government.
| 1888, October 26 | Born, Makó, Hungary |
| Doctor of Law, Peter Pazmany University of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary | |
| Doctor of Law, University of Berlin, Germany | |
| pre-1914 | Served in the Royal Hungarian Ministry of Interior |
| 1914-1918 | Attached to the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army and the Administration of Transylvania |
| 1919 | Organized active resistance with police force against the communist regime of Bela Kun in Hungary |
| 1920 | Chief of Press Section, Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, later in the Prime Minister's Office |
| 1922 | Elected to the Hungarian Parliament as member of the Government Party |
| 1923 | Went into opposition against the conservative government |
| 1929-1930 | Visited the United States upon the invitation of President Butler of Columbia University; lectured at American universities under the auspices of the Carnegie Endowment |
| 1930 | Founded the Hungarian Small Holders' Party and became its leader |
| 1934-1935 | Chief Delegate of Hungary to the League of Nations, Geneva |
| 1935 | Leader of the democratic opposition in Hungary |
| 1940 | Visited the United States for the second time, received by President Roosevelt, who invited him to come to the United States in case Hungary was overrun by the Nazis |
| 1941, August 8 | Arrived in the United States |
| 1941, September | Founded the "Movement for Independent Hungary" |
| 1941-1945 | Collaborated with the U.S. State Department |
| 1948 | Participated in organizing the Hungarian National Council and accepted membership in its Executive Committee |
| 1954 | Resigned from the Executive Committee of the Hungarian National Council |
| 1954 | Participated in organizing the Assembly of Captive European Nations and became Chairman of its Hungarian delegation |
| 1956, October | Launched the organization: "First Aid for Hungary," with Herbert Hoover as Honorary Chairman |