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Ottó Korvin (born Ottó Klein; 24 May 1894 – 28 December 1919) was a Hungarian communist who was politically active in the Hungarian Soviet Republic. He served as the chief of the Political Department of Internal Affairs. After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, Korvin was arrested by counter-revolutionary forces and hanged. He was the brother of József Kelen.
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Ottó Korvin (born Ottó Klein; 24 May 1894 – 28 December 1919) was a Hungarian communist who was politically active in the Hungarian Soviet Republic. He served as the chief of the Political Department of Internal Affairs. After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, Korvin was arrested by counter-revolutionary forces and hanged. He was the brother of József Kelen.
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After the fall of the communist regime He then worked on organizing the illegal communist party, together with Lukács. The latter took on the ideological leadership and Korvin handled the organizational side of things. Lukács later stated that he suspected Béla Kun had intentionally chosen them in the conviction that they would both be killed and "martyred". They were both well-known communists and Korvin had a hunchback, making him easily recognizable. Lukács moreover carried this suspicion because they both had sharp tensions with Kun: he himself disagreed with Kun on "moral issues in the communist movement" and Korvin clashed with the compromise-oriented Kun due to his insistence on class struggle. Korvin's illegal apartment was at 21 Naphegy Street. He received a fake passport with the pseudonym Béla Kornis. But that did not help either, as he soon fell into police hands. István Sulyok, whom he met on the day of his arrest, wrote the following about the arrest and torture of Korvin in a prison on Margit Korvin Boulevard: "On August 7, I ventured into Erzsébet Square, where I met Comrade Korvin. Civilians ran towards us from three sides, one pulled out his revolver, the other caught Comrade Korvin, I…
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Biography Born into a wealthy, enlightened Jewish family, his mother was Berta Eisenstädt and his father was Zsigmond Klein, a store manager who settled in Nagybocskó at the end of the 19th century. They had two children: József Klein (later József Kelen) and Ottó Klein. Later they moved to Máramarossziget, and the children went to school here. From 1906 they lived in Budapest where Ottó became a member of the Galileo Circle. He was made a poet and took the name Korvin on the advice of an editor. In the early 1910s, he met Zoltán Franyó, art historian Hugó Kenczler, and Tibor Szamuely. In 1912, he published a lyrical portfolio entitled "Sápadások" ("Pallors"). Ottó Klein's father, meanwhile, rented a forest in Oszatelep and set up a logging farm, where he invited Ottó to act as a "forest manager" in 1912. After the outbreak of World War I, Klein enlisted as a soldier, but was able to leave his military service because of his spine problems. He returned to Oszatelep and continued his work until 1917. At the beginning of 1917, Klein returned to Budapest. Here he studied social sciences and became acquainted with Marxism. As the department head of the…
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His role in the Hungarian Soviet Republic After the proclamation of the Soviet Republic, he first became the head of the commercial department of the Socialist Production Committee and issued a decree on the socialization of shops (meaning: nationalization and confiscation). He was later replaced by Dr. Joseph Wagas. His companion was Imre Sallai, his deputies were Ferenc Stein, János Guzi and Károly Benyovszky. The Budapest Revolutionary Court sentenced many people to death on the instructions of Korvin and Jenő László for a crime of counter-revolutionary behavior. Korvin also organized the defense apparatus of the council state. In mid-May 1919, after disarming the Chernig group, 43 people were assigned under Corvary's command in the Political Investigation Department. At the National Assembly of the Councils (June 23), he was elected a member of the Allied Central Management Committee, which re-elected the People's Commissars the next day, June 24. After the fall of the Soviet Republic, on the second of August, while the other Commissars left the country by train departing from Kelenföld, he worked in the Political Investigation Department with Salsa Stein and Ferenc Stein who tried to destroy all of the documents of their department.