„Mindent Erdélyért!” itthon és az emigrációban: gróf Teleki Béla élete
“Everything for Transylvania!” At Home and in Emigration: the Life of Count Béla Teleki

Summary/Abstract: The study offers a short summary of the life and political activityof Count Béla Teleki, one of the most important Transylvanian politicians in the middle of the 20th century. Teleki’s political career reached its peak in the time when Northern Transylvania was regained by Hungary after the Second Vienna Award. Starting from 1941 he was the president of the Transylvanian Party, the dominant Hungarian political party in Northern Transylvania. In October 1944 he was captured and deported by the Soviet Army. After a short time, Teleki was persecuted by the Secret Police of the new Hungarian Communist Regime too.In 1947 he left Hungary, and starting from 1951 he lived in the United States until his death on 7th February 1990. During the decades of his life in emigration, he carried on a great correspondence with the leading personalities of the Hungarian emigration in the West. In this way, Béla Teleki become one of the central personalities of the Hungarian emigrationin the Western World. This study summarises Béla Teleki’s life and his political activity from the perspective of his most important aim: to preserve the idea of Hungarian Transylvania.

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