Eckhardt, Tibor, 1888-

Biographical Note

• 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

From the guide to the Tibor Eckhardt Papers, 1921-1972, (Hoover Institution Archives)