Gyula Peidl

Gyula Peidl
Prime Minister of Hungary
In office 1 August 1919 – 6 August 1919
Preceded by	Sándor Garbai
Succeeded by	István Friedrich
Head of State of Hungary Acting
In office 1 August 1919 – 6 August 1919
Preceded by	Sándor Garbai
Succeeded by	Archduke Joseph August
Personal details
Born	4 April 1873 Ravazd, Hungary
Died	22 January 1943 (aged 69) Budapest, Hungary
Nationality	Hungarian
Political party	MSZDP
Profession	politician

Gyula Peidl (4 April 1873 – 22 January 1943) was a Hungarian trade union leader and socialist politician who served briefly as the last prime minister and acting head of state of Hungary in 1919.

In the six days his government ruled (also called the "trade-unionist government"), he tried to minimize the damage caused to Hungary by Communist rule. The official name of Hungary became again Hungarian People's Republic. As Romanian troops advanced on Budapest, he began to repeal and annul the unpopular decrees and measures of the Communists, restored private property, closed the revolutionary tribunals and dissolved the Red Guards.

On 6 August 1919 his government was overthrown by a rightist armed coup. Peidl went in exile in Austria. In 1921, Peidl returned to Hungary and resumed his political and trade union activities. From 1922 to 1931, he led the Hungarian Social Democratic Party in the Hungarian parliament.

Peidl died in Hungary in 1943.