Career
A military academy graduate, he came to prominence in Szeged in 1919 for his violent counterrevolutionary work and rose through the ranks to become one of the leading figures in the Gendarmerie. Close to Nazi Germany, he was appointed editor of the German-funded newspaper Magyarság. After the Nazi invasion and occupation of Hungary in March 1944, Baky was elevated to state secretary in the Ministry of the Interior, under Andor Jaross.
Along with his fellow state secretary, László Endre, Baky eagerly accepted responsibility for deporting the country"s Jews to the extermination camps.
Soon after his ascension, he wrote in a letter to Jaross, "The Royal Hungarian Government will soon have the country purged of Jews. I order the purge to be carried out by regions.
Under the direction of Eichmann Baky began the process of rounding up Jews in the eastern provinces of the country two days later. Baky was removed from his positions during the summer of 1944 and was then arrested after conspiring, unsuccessfully, to lead a coup against Miklós Horthy, who also ordered Edmund Veesenmayer to stop the deportation of Jews.
However Baky would return to prominence that October after Szálasi and the Arrow Cross were put in power by the Germans.
Under the Arrow Cross he continued his labors in deportation and mass murder. He fled the country in 1945 but was arrested in Austria and returned to Budapest. In 1946 Baky, Endre and Jaross were all tried, found guilty of crimes against the state, and executed.