Residence of Ferenc Gyurcsány, Hungarian PM (Budapest)
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This is the private residence of Ferenc Gyurcsány, Prime Minister of Hungary (2004- incumbent).
The villa is owned by Ms. Klára Dobrev, Gyurcsány's wife. Some say it was the property of a wealthy Hungarian-Jewish physician prior to World War II, but was expropriated by the state under the rule of the Arrow Cross (the ungarian equivalents of German nazis) by the end of the war. When the communists took over a few years later, a communist heavyweight, Antal Apró (later minister in the Kádár government) took possession of the villa by using his influence at the top of the state, so the adage goes. The Apró family has lived in this villa ever since.
When Gyurcsány (a former communist youth activist turned self-made entrepreneur) married Apró's granddaughter, Klára Dobrev by the mid 1990's, the couple decided to stay in the villa.
The neighboring villa (left, with brown roof) was János Kádár's residence during his years in power. Kádár was first secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party between November 1956 and May 1988. A former member in several successive cabinets at the beginning of the communist rule, Kádár rose to international prominence when backed by the Soviet army, he brutally crushed the October 1956 insurrection.
The Kádár villa is now a private property.
The villa is owned by Ms. Klára Dobrev, Gyurcsány's wife. Some say it was the property of a wealthy Hungarian-Jewish physician prior to World War II, but was expropriated by the state under the rule of the Arrow Cross (the ungarian equivalents of German nazis) by the end of the war. When the communists took over a few years later, a communist heavyweight, Antal Apró (later minister in the Kádár government) took possession of the villa by using his influence at the top of the state, so the adage goes. The Apró family has lived in this villa ever since.
When Gyurcsány (a former communist youth activist turned self-made entrepreneur) married Apró's granddaughter, Klára Dobrev by the mid 1990's, the couple decided to stay in the villa.
The neighboring villa (left, with brown roof) was János Kádár's residence during his years in power. Kádár was first secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party between November 1956 and May 1988. A former member in several successive cabinets at the beginning of the communist rule, Kádár rose to international prominence when backed by the Soviet army, he brutally crushed the October 1956 insurrection.
The Kádár villa is now a private property.
Wikipedia article: http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyurcsány_Ferenc
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Coordinates: 47°31'21"N 19°1'46"E
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