Csaba Gidó:
The Congress at Tuşnad in 1902
At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century all the nations of Central and Eastern Europe provided a special attention to the process of fulfillment of the national unity state. The Szeklers living at the Eastern edge of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy represented a special ethnic and geographical unity. They confronted many economical and social problems in the second part of the 19th century. Some of them decided to emigrate due to the increase in the population, the backward state of development of industry, the backwardness of agriculture, as well as the clumsiness of the railway network.
By the end of the 19th century this situation got worse, this way captivating the attention of the public opinion and of the government. Thus the Szekler problem came up. The public opinion considered that the Szekler community of the South-Eastern part of Transylvania will disappear if they don’t solve this situation.
For the solution of this Szekler Problem the Szekler Congress is organized at Tuşnad in 1902. It lasted three days, during which they discussed all the problems of the Szekler society and were searching for solutions. The participants asked for a more active presence of the Hungarian State in the solving of the Szekler Problem, and they elaborated a series of projects which they hoped to find a remedy with.
About this Congress appeared a series of pro and con opinions. However we can say that it had a major role in the activation of the Hungarian State in this area.
At the beginning of the 20th century the Szekler society and economy began to recover from the crisis of the close of the century. This development of the Szeklers was stopped by the World War I. A part of the elaborated projects got into the deepest corners of the State Archives. This way a part of the early existing problems still hasn’t been solved.
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