Background
Sik, Endre was born on April 2, 1891 in Budapest, Hungary. Son of Sandor and Flora (Winternitz) Sik.
Sik, Endre was born on April 2, 1891 in Budapest, Hungary. Son of Sandor and Flora (Winternitz) Sik.
Student, University Law, Budapest, 1912.
He was the younger brother of Sándor Sík, poet, piarist teacher. During the First World War he was captured by the Russians. After that he lived in the Soviet Union.
In 1920, he joined the Soviet Communist Party.
In 1945, he returned to Hungary, and became a Communist politician. He was deputy of the foreign minister (1954–1958), then minister (1958–1961).
In his scientific work, he studied the history of African ethnic groups. He obtained the Doctor of Sciences degree of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1962.
His book, Vihar a levelet, containing his recollections on the Soviet Union in the 1930s, was banned and withdrawn immediately after appearance.
Hungarian Communist Party, Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Prisoner of war, Russia, World War I. M C.
Married Katharine Toezky, August 11, 1918. Children: Irina (Mistress Sergei Sokolow), Igor.