Károly Huszár de Sárvár (born as Károly Schorn, 1882–1941) was a Hungarian politician who served as prime minister and acting Head of State of Hungary from November 1919 to March 1920. His tenure coincided with a period of political instability in Hungary immediately after World War I, during which several successive governments ruled the country. Biography Huszár was born on 10 September 1882 in Nussdorf on the outskirts of Vienna, the then capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was trained as a teacher, and from 1903 he participated in the activities of the Christian socialist peasant movements. Between 1910 and 1918, he was deputy of the Christian National Party in the Hungarian Parliament and editor-in-chief of his publication, Néppart. He fought as a volunteer on several fronts during the First World War. In the cabinet of János Hadik, the last of the Kingdom of Hungary, he ephemerally assumed the Ministry of Education and Religions. After the establishment of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in March 1919, he was arrested; he was released later, and went into exile in Vienna. After the end of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, he took again the Ministry of Education and Religions in the government of István Friedrich, between August and November 1919. He was then one of the leaders of the Christian National Union Party (KNEP), the ruling party for most of the 1920s. Government Cabinet formation The small counterrevolutionary National Army under Miklós Horthy entered Budapest two days after the withdrawal of the Romanian Army on 14 November 1919, which evacuated the city after looting. Thanks to the mediation of the envoy of the Entente, a coalition government was formed on 23 November with Huszár as its head, despite no political experience in this area, although he had once been a teacher. The previous president of the government, István Friedrich, was relieved by his ambition, which collided with that of Horthy, and he inspired little confidence in Horthy because of his previous closeness to Mihály Károlyi. The new government included the Party of Smallholders, National-Democrats (Liberals) and Social-Democrats, among others, and was intended to be a transitional cabinet until the future elections to be held by extended suffrage (39.2% of the population, including, for the first time, women) and secret ballot. Friedrich remained in the Council of Ministers and was responsible for defence, a position unimportant since the army obeyed Horthy. His party, the KNEP,