Julij Feldesi
Julij Feldesi (Ukrainian: Юлій Фельдеши, Hungarian Földesi Gyula, 1875–1947) was a Rusyn printer and politician.
Biography
[edit]Julij Feldesi was born in Szobránc, in the Ung County of the Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Sobrance, Slovakia). After his studies, he became a printer in Ungvár (today Uzhhorod, Ukraine). He was successful in this occupation, with clients as far away as the United States.[1]
After the treaty of Trianon he became the member of a Czechoslovak political party, the Ruthenian Peasants Party.[1] It was as a member of this organization that he was elected member of the Senate of Czechoslovakia, serving from 1935 to 1938.[1] After the Hungarian annexion of Carpathian Ruthenia, Feldesi was elected member of the Diet of Hungary.[1]
In 1944, when the Red Army advanced into Carpathian Ruthenia, Feldesi was arrested and later committed to life imprisonment as a collaborator.[1] He died in the Sambir prison in 1947.
Footnotes
[edit]- 1875 births
- 1947 deaths
- People from Sobrance District
- People from the Kingdom of Hungary
- Rusyn people
- Slovak Greek Catholics
- Ruthenian Peasants Party politicians
- Members of the Senate of Czechoslovakia (1935–1939)
- Members of the House of Representatives of Hungary (1939–1944)
- Printers from Austria-Hungary
- Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I