Economic and educational policy of Sandor Wekerle Former Hungarian PM

Abstract

During the dualism, on the turn of the 20th and 21th century Wekerle filled the position of the finance minister many times and he was also the prime minister three times. With his decades of activities he actively contributed to the creation and development of the Hungarian capitalism and the to the domestic capitalist economy. It can be recognized that in Wekerle’s social-political thinking there is a relationship between the economic public interest, the employees’ economic and health interest, the employers’ interest and the interest of the public education. In the area of public education he regarded the enforcement of national factors as a cornerstone so that at all stages of the education the national character of the Hungarian state should be expressed. The entire public education should be harmonized with practical life and the national standards in a way that the freedom and rationale of spiritual and local education as well as the national minority education would not be damaged.