Hungarian ambassador to the Soviet Union
Which position did Erik Molnár hold from Oct 1948 to Sep 1949?
Erik Molnár Erik Molnár ( 16 December 1894 – 8 August 1966 ) was a Hungarian communist politician , lawyer , economist and philosopher who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs twice : from 1947 to 1948 and from 1952 to 1953 . Biography . During the First World War he fought at the Eastern Front where captured by the Russians . As prisoner of war Molnár met with the communist ideas in a prisoner-of-war camp in Far East Asia . Later he returned to home and finished his legal studies . After that he joined to the illegal Hungarian Communist Partys working along with his younger brother , René . He published lot of articles for the illegal communist newspapers ( Gondolat , Társadalmi Szemle , Korunk ) . In the Interim National Government he served as Minister of Welfare ( 1944–1945 ) . Later he was appointed Minister of Information and Minister of Foreign Affairs ( 1947–1948 ) . Then he was the Hungarian ambassador to the Soviet Union ( 1948–1949 ) , later he worked as Minister of Justice ( 1950–1952 ) . He was Minister of Foreign Affairs again between 1952 and 1953 . He was the President of the Supreme Court of Hungary between 1953 and 1954 , later he was appointed as Minister of Justice again ( 1954–1956 ) . He was member of the assembly from 1944 until his death , and also member of the communist partys Central Committee . Molnár played a big role in the management of the history research as member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciencess history institute and as chairman of the Hungarian Historical Society . He dealt with the problems of the Hungarian social development thoroughly , first of all with the land question , the Marxism-Leninism applied his teachings to the Hungarian relations . During the Second World War bigger studies appeared about the Árpád eras society . After 1945 Molnár dealt with the Hungarian prehistory and the feudalism with the questions of age social history , the ideological antecedents of the historical materialism and with his philosophical basis problems , the questions of the contemporary capitalism , dealt with the development of the nationalism and its development furthermore . Publications . - Dialektika ( Dialect ) , Budapest , 1941 ( Erik Jeszenszky pseudonym ) . - Magyar őstörténet ( Hungarian prehistory ) , Budapest , 1942 ( Lajos Szentmiklósy pseudonym ) . - A feudalizmus kialakulása Magyarországon ( The development of the feudalism in Hungary ) , Budapest , 1942 ( Lajos Szentmiklósy pseudonym ) . - Az Árpádkori társadalom 1 . A gazdasági alap ( The society of the Árpád Era I : The Economy ) , Budapest , 1943 ( Lajos Szentmiklósy pseudonym ) . - Az Árpádkori társadalom 2 . A Felépítmény ( The society of the Árpád Era II : The Forecastle ) , Budapest , 1943 ( Lajos Szentmiklósy pseudonym ) . - Dialektika ( Dialect ) , Budapest , 1945 . - A magyar társadalom története az őskortól az Árpádkorig ( The history of the Hungarian society from the Prehistory to the Árpád Era ) , Budapest , 1945 . - A magyar társadalom története az Árpádkortól Mohácsig ( The history of the Hungarian society from the Árpád Era to the Battle of Mohács ) , Budapest , 1949 . - A történelmi materializmus ideológiai előzményei ( The ideological antecedents of the historical materialism ) , Budapest , 1952 . - A magyar nép őstörténete ( The prehistory of the Hungarian people ) , Budapest , 1953 . - A történelmi materializmus filozófiai alapproblémái ( The philosophical basis problems of the historical materialism ) , Budapest , 1955 . - A jelenkori kapitalizmus néhány gazdasági problémája ( Some economic problems of the contemporary capitalism ) , Budapest , 1959 . - Dialektikus materializmus és társadalomtudomány ( Dialectic materialism and social science ) , Budapest , 1962 . References . - Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon