Abstract
In: Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung 2015. Berlin: Metropol Verlag, pp. 39–56.
Using her father’s connections, Gizella Sándor soon became a member of the leftist political community in the 1930s. As a result, she came onto the radar of Péter Hain – a detective with the Hungarian royal police, who later became her husband. During this time, for the first time Gizella Sándor had to report on her previous friends on the left. After her marriage she became acquainted with the police, military and political leaders of the Horthy era, and with prominent German businessmen and diplomats. After the German occupation of Hungary she helped the Gestapo with her reports about her own husband. Then, subsequently, she was interned following the Soviet occupation because of her husband’s activities. After spending more than a decade in internment, she received the cover name »Andrea Semsei« by the Hungarian political police. And she again had to report about her friends. The Revolution of 1956 was a turning point for her life. However, she did not get freedom like 200,000 of her fellow emigrants did. She crossed the Hungarian-Austrian border together with her liaison officer and with the active help of the state security. Her emigration fitted into her plan to reorganise the now disintegrated communist intelligence service.
Über den Autor
Zoltán Boér, geb. 1984, seit 2012 Doktorand an der Universität Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem in Budapest. Spezialisiert auf die Erforschung der Aktivitäten der ungarischen Geheimdienste zwischen 1956 und 1990. Nach Abschluss des Studiums Teilnahme an einem Projekt zur Erforschung der Arbeit der Staatssicherheit in den Städten Eger und Hódmezővásárhely. Boér war Mitglied des Herausgebergremiums von www.szigoruantitkos.hu, das am 1. März 2011 eine Datenbank mit Informationen zu Mitarbeitern der Staatssicherheit veröffentlichte. Seit April 2011 ist er im Auftrag des historischen Untersuchungsausschusses der Reformierten Kirche an der Untersuchung und Erhebung unterschiedlicher Aufzeichnungen des Geheimdienstes in Bezug auf die ungarische
Reformierte Kirche beteiligt.