Hungarian sports policy during the interwar period was marked by a fundamental change in perspective. Under the purview of the minister of religion and education, Kuno Klebelsberg, physical education was treated as a forced alternative to military training—which had been drastically curtailed following the Treaty of Trianon—with the promotion of sports viewed as a cultural mission. A visionary patron of Hungarian sports, Klebelsberg is credited with—among other things—introducing the Physical Education Act, establishing the College of Physical Education, fostering the Levente youth movement, encouraging mass sport, establishing numerous sports facilities, promoting the international expansion of Hungarian sports diplomacy, and announcing the first Physical Education Congress.
“Until now, no one in Hungary could ever lay claim to the title of minister of sport—not in the old days, nor in recent times. That is, until today. And yet, sport is not a recent phenomenon for us; we look back to the 1870s when writing of its birth, and our ministers have not been appointed just since yesterday but ever since the days of the ill-fated Lajos Batthyány. We have been waiting – if not since 1875, then certainly for quite some time – for sports and a minister to finally find each other or—at the risk of a slight exaggeration—a people and their leader. We had to wait a long time.”
Commissioned by Kuno Klebelsberg, the 1930 National Physical
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