Ambassador of Hungary to the Republic of Peru | |
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Incumbent Vacant | |
Inaugural holder | Wilhelm Brauns |
Formation | 1864 |
The Hungarian ambassador in Lima is the official representative of the Government in Budapest to the Government of Peru.
Both countries established relations in the 19th century. In 1851, Austria–Hungary recognized the independence of Peru, and both countries subsequently established relations.[1] As a result of World War I, Peru severed relations with both Germany and Austria–Hungary in 1917, reestablishing them in 1920.[2]
After the 1968 Peruvian coup d'état and the establishment of Juan Velasco Alvarado's Revolutionary Government, relations were renewed in April 1969[3] with the Hungarian People's Republic as the new Peruvian government pursued closer relations with the Soviet bloc.[4]
The Peruvian embassy in Budapest closed in January 2007 and reopened in 2017.[5][6][7] Today, ethnic Hungarians in Latin America reside in Argentina and Peru for the most part.[8]
An honorary consulate operated in Lima from 1864 to 1919, serving as the representation of Austria-Hungary in Peru.[1]
№ | Name | Term begin | Term end | Head of state |
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1 | Wilhelm Brauns | 1864 | 1872 | Ferdinand I |
2 | Christian Krüger | 1872 | 1883 | Franz Joseph I |
3 | Jean Louis Dubois | 1883 | 1898 | |
4 | Graham Row | 1898 | 1899 | |
5 | Samuel Brahms | 1899 | 1908 | |
6 | Walter Justus | 1908 | 1918 |
Name | Term begin | Term end | Prime Minister | Notes | |
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Vilmos Meruk | 1980 | 1985 | György Lázár | As ambassador. | |
Adolf Széles | c. 1986[9] | 1991 | György Lázár | As ambassador. He was the adoptive father of S’Iza[10] | |
János Tóth | 1991 | 1993 | József Antall | As ambassador. | |
Jozsef Balazs | 1996 | ? | Gyula Horn | As ambassador, resident in Colombia. He delivered his credentials on September 23, 1996.[11] | |
Ferenc Nagy | 2000 | 2002 | Viktor Orbán | As ambassador. He presented his credentials on October 18, 2000.[12] | |
Péter Kraft | 2002 | 2003 | Péter Medgyessy | As ambassador[13] (also spelled "Craft").[14] He was involved in a financial and diplomatic incident with the Hungarian government in 2002.[15] | |
2006–2017: Embassy in Peru closed; ambassador in Buenos Aires accredited instead
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Gábor Kaleta | 2017 | April 2019[16] | Viktor Orbán | As ambassador.[17] Kaleta presented his credentials on March 6, 2017.[18] He was removed from his post in 2019 after an international investigation uncovered that he had downloaded over 19,000 images of child pornography from a South Korean website, which were stored in his computer.[19][20][21][22] | |
Katalin Tóth | 2020 | 2021 | Viktor Orbán | As ambassador, she delivered her credentials on March 4, 2021.[23] | |
Katalin Kőrössy | 2021 | 2022 | Viktor Orbán | As ambassador, she delivered her credentials on October 7, 2021.[24] |