Vilmos Tkálecz

Who is Vilmos Tkálecz?

Vilmos Tkálecz was a Hungarian-Slovenian schoolmaster and politician, serving as governor of the Prekmurian Republic in 1919.

Tkálecz was born on January 8, 1894 in Turnišče, Prekmurje, in the Zala County of the Kingdom of Hungary. István Tkálecz, his father was an innkeeper, mother was Mária Hochhoffer who was of German descent. In 1917, he enlisted in the army and was sent to Russia. After World War I, he worked as a teacher at a school in Črenšovci, near Lendava.

Under the Hungarian Soviet Republic, Tkálecz was an assistant to clerk Béla Obál while staying in Murska Sobota.

On May 29, 1919, Tkálecz declared Prekmurje a republic. On June 6, the Hungarian Red Army was sent to Murska Sobota and demolished the state. Tkálecz went into exile to Austria, some time in 1920 and later found a job as a teacher in Nagykarácsony, Hungary, where he remained for many years. He died in Budapest in 1950. After 1929 change his name for Vilmos Tarcsay. In 1939 wrote a course book in Prekmurian language Vend-szlovenszka kniga cstenya.