Béla Aggteleky

Béla Aggteleky (born September 14, 1890 in Sopron , † August 5, 1977 in Geneva ) was a Hungarian lieutenant general in the Royal Hungarian Army (Magyar Királyi Honvédség) in World War II .

Life

Aggteleky began officer training in 1909 and then found use as an officer in the Royal Hungarian Landwehr (Magyar Királyi Honvédség) . During the First World War he was a lieutenant (Hadnagy) in the armed forces of Austria-Hungary and completed a staff training in 1917, after which he was promoted to captain (Százados) . He was then a teacher at the Royal Hungarian Ludovika Academy and from 1922 served in the Royal Hungarian Army as an officer trainer in Sopron. After attending a general staff course in 1925, he became an employee of the Ministry of Defense in 1927 and from 1939 to 1940 head of Section 1 / a for peacetime organization of Department I, Organization and Mobilization.

After his promotion to major general (Vezérőrnagy) on July 1, 1940, Aggteleky was Deputy Head of the Chancellery of the Ministry of Defense from 1940 to 1941 and at the same time commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade stationed in Yugoslavia , before being chief from November 1, 1941 to October 1, 1942 of the staff of the 1st Army. On November 1, 1942 he was promoted to Lieutenant General (Altábornagy) and acted as Commanding General of the II Corps between October 1, 1943 and November 1, 1943, and then as Commanding General from November 1, 1943 to August 1, 1944 General of the 1st Corps. Then he was from August 1 to October 8, 1944 Commanding General of III deployed on the Eastern Front. Corps as well as commanding general of the VIII. Corps between October 8 and 15, 1944, before he was again commanding general of the I Corps until his retirement on February 1, 1945.

After the end of the war, Aggteleky initially continued to live in Hungary before he went into exile in Switzerland after the popular uprising in 1956 and died there in 1977.

Web links

• Entry in generals.dk