Jenő Szemák
Jenő Szemák (4 February 1887 – 30 July 1971) was a Hungarian jurist, who served as President of the
Curia Regia
from 1944 to 1945.
He finished his legal studies in
Kolozsvár (today: Cluj-Napoca, Romania). He taught at the Calvinist Law Academy of Máramarossziget (today: Sighetu Marmației, Romania) until the Treaty of Trianon (1920) when he was banned from Transylvania. He moved to Budapest
.
He was elected President of the Criminal Court in 1939. He led the trials in the cases of many Communist persons including Zoltán Szántó and
Second World War. He was sentenced to death in absentia. He settled down in the United States
where he died in 1971.
Sources
- Hungarian Biographical Lexicon (in Hungarian)
Further reading
- Garamvölgyi, Flóra (2022-11-16). "Hungary: portrait of pro-fascist wartime judge rehung in supreme court". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-11-16.
