Géza Szőcs

Géza Szőcs (21 August 1953 – 5 November 2020) was an ethnic Hungarian poet and politician from Transylvania, Romania, who served as Secretary of State for Culture of the Ministry of National Resources in Hungary from 2 June 2010 to 13 June 2012.

His father was István Szőcs [hu] (1928–2020), an ethnic Hungarian writer and translator from Romania.

Szőcs edited the Hungarian-language samizdat Ellenpontok, because of this he was interrogated and abused by Securitate, secret police agency of the Ceaușescu regime.

In 1990, Szőcs returned to Cluj and was active in the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ), for which he sat from 1990 to 1992 in the Romanian Senate.

In May 2010, he was appointed Hungary's Secretary of State for Culture by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

The Hungarian pavilion, the "Shaman drum" cost HUF 2 billion of public funds.