Lajos Endrédi

Endrédi Lajos was born on 12 May 1915 in Kádárta, his father was a conductor of the Hungarian Railway. After graduation, he had to take a job immediately for financial reasons, and from 1936 he was able to find work in a timber and building materials shop. In 1937 he was called up to the 2nd Travelling Battalion, and was not allowed to be demobilised because of the mobilisations. In the absence of a bond, he was only allowed to marry at the end of 1944, after the abolition of the bond by the Arrow Cross. In mid-December 1944, he was posted to Szentendre Island as a company commander of the 201st Special Technical Battalion. The unit was a debris clearance and rescue unit, unattached to the General Staff, and was primarily responsible for reconstruction work after bombing raids. They were armed only with small arms. Endrédi was taken prisoner with his unit in Szentendre on 26 December 1944 and returned to Hungary in 1947.

After his return home, he was diagnosed with a 25% disability due to an illness he contracted during his captivity.

In 1946, he was appointed administrator of the Free Trade Union of Private Employees, and later became a leader of the FAÉRT. In 1948, he was invited to attend a course as a pilot educator at the Kossuth Academy, but was discharged at his request. In the same year he joined the National Peasant Party.

After 1956, he was demoted for disapproving of overly harsh reprisals and for being "an advocate of the multi-party system".