Ferdinand Ďurčanský

Ferdinand Ďurčanský
Born
Ferdinand Ďurčanský

(1906-12-18)18 December 1906
Died15 March 1974(1974-03-15) (aged 67)
NationalitySlovak State
CitizenshipSlovak Republic
EducationDoctorate in law
Alma materInstitut des Hautes Études Internationales in Paris, University of Bratislava, The Hague Academy of International Law
OccupationLawyer
Known forPolitician
TitleChairman of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations
PredecessorVeli Kajum-Khan
SuccessorF. Farkas de Kisbarnak
Political partySlovak People's Party

Ferdinand Ďurčanský (18 December 1906 – 15 March 1974) was a Slovak nationalist leader who for a time served with as a minister in the government of the Axis-aligned Slovak State in 1939 and 1940. He was known for spreading virulent antisemitic propaganda, although he left the government before the Holocaust in Slovakia was fully implemented. After the war, he joined the Gehlen Organization.