Imre Menyhay

Imre (Emmerich) Menyhay (12 May 1931, in Budafok – 23 October 2018) was a Hungarian-Austrian economist, pedagogue, sociologist, and psychologist of economics.

In the latter one, he studied under the Kossuth Prize winning writer, Miklós Szentkuthy, who befriended this pupil who excelled in Hungarian literature and held school celebration speeches.

[10] During the late 1940s and early 1950s, he acted as the leader of the 1915 Astrik the Blessed Scout Team and clerk of the youth organization of the Catholic vicarage of Budafok Fourth District.

Here he spoke to the administrator of the refugee camp, pointing out that the lack of regular activities caused children to be vulnerable.

The next day [11] the then Austrian minister of education, Heinrich Drimmel, sent an office car for him, and assigned him to set up a school for the Hungarian refugee children.

He obtained parental consent to place the children under the care of the school to be set up, prepared the organization plan, the curriculum by disciplines, the schedule, and the list of teachers.

A teacher of religion was found only in the last minute, right before the buses full of children and educators left the barrack courtyard heading to Obertraun in Upper Austria.

[12] In 1957, after many adversities, he arrived in the old castle of the Schwechat Beer Factory near Vienna, adapted for intellectual refugees, where he spent five years.

He lived there only for a short time, because after the successful teacher's certificate examination, he applied and won the position of the professor of economics of the Austrian federal government in the economics school of the Styrian town of Leoben, whereby the government intended to support the town school ("live subvention").

They readily provided insight into the municipal road network maintenance, energy and water supply, and funeral services, among others.

Led by Miklós Horn, and later László Csizmadia, general directors of the Faculty of Commerce, Catering, and Tourism, leading professors of the teaching staff visited Leoben and the competent minister in Vienna, Austria several times on academic and contact-making tours.