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Ervin Demeter

Minister of Civilian Intelligence Services of Hungary

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ661571 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ervin Demeter (born 21 December 1954) is a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Civilian Intelligence Services of Hungary between 2000 and 2002.

Personal life

He is married. His wife is Edit Kulcsár. They have a son, Endre.

References

Biográf ki kicsoda (Budapest, 2003)

Bölöny, József – Hubai, László: Magyarország kormányai 1848–2004 [Cabinets of Hungary 1848–2004], Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 2004 (5th edition).

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This entry incorporates text from “Ervin Demeter” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.