It is with deep sorrow that we announce the death of Dr. Laszlo Nagy, former Secretary General of WOSM, on Friday 18 December in Geneva. He played a vital role in reforming World Scouting and his memory will remain with us for a long time.
Laszlo Nagy, born in 1921 in Budapest, arrived in Switzerland in 1947. It was late on in life, in 1955, at the age of 34, that he started on a professional career. Recipient of a scholarship and a researcher at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, he tried journalism. Occasional contributor to the Journal de Genève, he became the German correspondent and then a main reporter for the Gazette de Lausanne. In 1966, he changed his professional direction, undertaking a critical study financed by the Ford Foundation on the crisis facing youth movements and more particularly World Scouting. He became Secretary General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) on 1 May 1968, and served in this position until 1988.
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