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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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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…