Announcement – The Grey Eminence

Portrait of the Crown Prosecutor dr. Zoltán Timkó

Abstract

The study presents the career and work of Dr. Zoltán Timkó, Crown Prosecutor. The present study is based on an analysis of the literature on the subject, contemporary news reports, family history records and Zoltán Timkó's publications and public speeches, primarily using the methodological tools of legal history research. Zoltán Timkó studied law and worked at the Hungarian Royal Prosecutor's Office for the rest of his life. As a lawyer assigned to the Ministry of Justice and head of the criminal law department, he was a key figure in the justice system of the Horthy era. A respected criminal lawyer of his time, he was appointed Crown Prosecutor in 1940, a post he held until 1944. The work of Zoltán Timkó in the Hungarian judiciary is considered outstanding and has not been presented before.