Ferenc Koncz was a Hungarian teacher and politician, member of the National Assembly for Szerencs from 2010 to 2014, and for Tiszaujvaros from 2018 until his death.
24 Facts About Ferenc Koncz
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Ferenc Koncz was a Member of Parliament from the Fidesz Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County between 1998 and 2002, and from the party's National List from 2004 to 2006.
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Ferenc Koncz served as Mayor of Szerencs from 2010 to 2018.
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Ferenc Koncz was born in Tornaszentjakab on 2 October 1959.
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Ferenc Koncz finished his secondary studies at the Secondary Technical School of Machine Industry in Miskolc in 1978, where he acquired machine production technologist qualifications.
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Ferenc Koncz started working for the State Building Company of Borsod.
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Ferenc Koncz taught in Budapest for a year, then moved to teach in Rakoczi Zsigmond Elementary School in Szerencs.
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Ferenc Koncz became involved in politics when he was in college.
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Ferenc Koncz headed the party's Szerencs branch from 1993 to 1998, then served on the National Board from 1995 to 1998.
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Ferenc Koncz became vice president of the county organisation in 1998.
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Ferenc Koncz headed the party list in the 1998 local elections.
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Ferenc Koncz chaired the Committee on Public Education and Culture and was a municipal councillor.
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Ferenc Koncz ran in the parliamentary elections for the first time in the spring of 1994.
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Ferenc Koncz was active in the Youth and Sport Committee and the Committee on Environmental Protection.
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Ferenc Koncz was co-opted on 24 August 2004 to take the seat of Andras Gyurk, who resigned, having been elected to the European Parliament.
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Ferenc Koncz became MP for Szerencs in the 2010 Hungarian parliamentary election.
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Ferenc Koncz was a member of the Committee on Sustainable Development and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy from 2010 to 2014.
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Ferenc Koncz was elected mayor of Szerencs in the 2010 local elections.
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Ferenc Koncz did not run in the 2014 parliamentary election due to the newly adopted conflict of interest law.
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Ferenc Koncz was re-elected as mayor of Szerencs in the 2014 local elections.
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Ferenc Koncz functioned as a member of the Committee on Sustainable Development and President of its Subcommittee on Climate Protection from 2018 until his death.
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Ferenc Koncz was succeeded as mayor of Szerencs in July 2018 by Tibor Nyiri, a fellow Fidesz member and former deputy mayor under Koncz.
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Ferencz Koncz died in a motor-vehicle collision in Bekecs, near Szerencs, on 10 July 2020.
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Ferenc Koncz was succeeded as MP for Tiszaujvaros by his daughter and fellow Fidesz member Zsofia Koncz, who was elected during a by-election in October 2020.