Jenő Landler

Jenő Landler (November 23, 1875 – February 25, 1928) was a Hungarian Communist leader of Jewish roots. He studied to be a lawyer and was drawn to the Social Democratic Party through his involvement in the ironworker's trade union movement. But he kept moving politically to the left and became a Communist. After the Hungarian Revolution of 1919 he became people's commissar of interior affairs in the new communist government. He was also a commander of the Hungarian Red Army fighting the foreign troops of the interventionists. After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic he emigrated to Austria where he continued to be a leader of the exiled Hungarian communist movement.

Jenő Landler
Born	November 23, 1875 Gelse, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary)
Died	February 25, 1928 (aged 52) Cannes, France
Nationality	Hungarian
Political party	Hungarian Communist Party Hungarian Social Democratic Party (before 1918)
Parent(s)	Adolf Landler Gizella Spitzer

Jenő Landler died in 1928 in exile in Cannes. His ashes were brought to Moscow and placed in the Kremlin wall.

External links

• The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979)

Tibor Szamuely, Béla Kun, Jenő Landler. Monument in Budapest.