Balog de Manko Buck

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Balog de Manko Buck
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place of origin Ödenburg County (region), Habsburg Monarchy
Noble Hungarian nobility
origin 1552
Progenitor Gáspar Balogh de Mankó Bük
nationality Empire Austria , Austria-Hungary
possession Bük
lock Mesterházy Castle
relationship Barons Wagner von Wehrborn, Madách de Sztregova et Kelecsény
Awards Order of the Iron Crown , Civil Merit Cross , Military Merit Medal ,
Balogh v. Mankó Bük family coat of arms (Siebm. Coat of Arms)

The Balogh de Mankó Bük / Balog from Mankobück to Hungarian Mankóbüki Balogh were a noble family of the Habsburg monarchy , from the western Hungarian county of Ödenburg / Sopron , whose presence in Bük (Alsóbük, Mankóbük) has been documented since 1552.

The family v. Mankobük has its origins in the Habsburg government over Hungary at the time of the Austrian Turkish Wars .

Origin and history

The first documented mention of a Manko Bück family can be found in 1351 as “ Monko de Byky ”. In 1451 a Johannes Manko de Byk is mentioned. The complete line of bloodlines goes back to the brothers Lörinez (1618) and János (1629), although the lawyer Gáspar Balogh de Mankóbük was documented in Bük as early as 1556, and was published in Budapest in 1911.

The captain Josef Balog de Mankó-Bük (1766–1842) was stationed as a lawyer in 1795 in Köszeg / Güns, at that time the seat of the county administration and mostly German-speaking. He worked for the "Kőszegi Kerületi Táblanak", an institution founded in 1724 to regulate noble property and inheritance economically.

Balog de Manko Buck
Part of the family tree of the Balog de Manko Bück family. (After 1800)

Josef Balog de Mankó-Bük served in the Imperial Austrian Army during the Napoleonic Wars and died in Vienna in 1842 .

Part of the family left German West Hungary at the beginning of the 19th century and was relatively mobile within the crown lands of the Austrian Empire. B. in Timisoara and Karlsburg in Transylvania (today's Romania) or Brno and Olomouc in Moravia (today's Czech Republic).

The family settled in Vienna around 1837 and in Budapest around 1848 after the fall of the dual monarchy.

Most of the members of the family served as soldiers in the Austrian Imperial Army and the Austro-Hungarian Army , were legal scholars or, later, also worked in the political and cultural sectors.

At the time of the Habsburg Monarchy, German was the common official state language and, after the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, it had equal rights with Hungarian. However, Latin was used as the official language in the Hungarian part of the monarchy for centuries.

The branch of the family that settled in France after the Second World War made French its mother tongue.

In 1847 he married the famous writer, politician and nobleman Imre Madách de Sztregova et Kelecsény.

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a red arm in a blue shield, which holds three white ostrich feathers, the crest is identical (arm with feathers). The helmet covers are silver-red and gold-blue.

Coat of arms from 1913

The coat of arms from 1913 has a shield divided obliquely to the left, below in green a red arm with a curved saber, above in red the three white ostrich feathers, the crest are the three feathers (as in the shield). The helmet covers are like in the family coat of arms. The coat of arms can be found in the work Liber Armorum Hungariae published in Budapest in 1913 , recorded by the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister Count Andrassy.

Mesterházy Castle

Mesterházy kastély
Mesterházy Castle

The Potypusztán Castle (known as Mesterházy Castle) is located in the Hungarian municipality of Csehimindszent in Eisenburg County (today Vas County ) and was owned by Aladár Balogh de Manko Bük from 1915 until its expropriation in 1945.

The castle was originally built by the Croatian Counts of Festetics de Tolna (Hungarian princes since 1911) around 1782.

The property was acquired by the Zalabéri Horváth noble family in 1839 and sold to the Mesterházy family in 1871. It was passed on from the widow of Gyula Mesterázy (1869-1914) to his second husband, Aladár Balogh de Manko Bük.

Mesterházy Castle was completely renovated in 1929 and expropriated by the Hungarian government in 1945. It was used for government and public purposes in the decades that followed.

Anton Balog de Manko-Bük

Born in Karlsburg / Ala Iulia (July 25, 1805), then part of Transylvania, in the Austrian Empire (now Romania).

In 1817 he attended the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt as an officer training course. From October 21, 1825 he became an ensign in the Hungarian regiment Archduke Albrecht n.44 and became lieutenant in 1830, first lieutenant in 1834 and captain in 1836.

Captain v. Manko-Bük was adjutant "His Excellency" Field Marshal Lieutenant Baron Lauer.

He married Aloysia Widemann (Vienna 1816 - Klosterneuburg 1866), daughter of a captain auditor. Anton (Hungarian Antal) died in Vienna in 1844.

Aloysia Balog de Manko-Bück

She was born in Vienna in 1842 and died in Budapest in 1876. In 1869 Aloysia married Major General Rudolf Freiherr Wagner von Wehrborn (Vienna 1815 - Radstadt 1897), a knight of the Military Maria Theresa Order .

Direct descendants of this marriage are members of the German princely houses of Lippe-Weißenfeld and Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg .

Karl Balog de Mánko-Bük

Madách Castle in Alsósztregova, Slovakia
Karl Balog v. Mankobück and his wife Margit Bérczy de Gyarmat

Karl / Károly was born in Buda in 1848 and died in Pécs in 1920 . He was a judge, knight of the Order of the Iron Crown and President of the Royal Court of Pécs (Tabula Regia lat. Or Király Táblain Hungarian).

He was the son of Captain Karl Balog de Mánko-Bük (1808–1849), kk dragoons in the cavalry of the Austrian Imperial Army, and Mária Madách de Sztregova et Kelecsény (1816–1849).

Mádachs at home in Budapest in the Biedermeier style, painted by Karl Balog

The father was seriously injured in Siebenburgen, during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, in a battle at Timisoara. That is why his wife, Mária Madách and children, traveled to him to assist him on his return home. Karl Balog de Manko Bük was left behind in Madách Castle (now Slovakia ) with his mother's family because of his young age.

Karl was orphaned in the summer of 1849 when his immediate family was murdered by armed Romanian farmers on their way back from Transylvania.

As a result, Karl was raised as his own son at Madách Castle by his uncle, the well-known writer, Imre Madách de Sztregova et Kelecsény. Traces of this shared family history can be found in the Slovak National Museum , as the section of Hungarian culture in Slovakia is partly located in Madách Castle. In Budapest there is also a street and a square, directly on Budapest's Ringstrasse , both as a theater, named after Imre Madách.

He studied law in Pressburg / Bratislava and worked for the Ministry of Justice.

He served during the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878 and produced the war-images-sketches from the Bosnian-Herzegovinischen Occupations campaign, 1878 from the line of march Brod, Sarajevo, Visegrad until the Limm in Vienna (1879) , the can be found in the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute.

He married Margaret Bérczy de Gyarmat , daughter of Károly Bérczy de Gyarmat, in Budapest in 1875 . In 1912, at the age of 64, he wrote his childhood memoir "Gyermekkorom emlékei".

In 1914 Karl Balog von Mankobück was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown, 2nd class, for his lifelong commitment as a lawyer and judge in Pécs.

Dr. Karl Balogh de Mankobük

Károly Balogh de Mankobück
Károly Balogh about Imre Madách

Dr. Károly was a consultant in the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior, a translator for the Hungarian government and a literary historian. At the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy he was a judge and member of the government of the port city of Fiume (now Croatia) until the First World War.

Károly was born in Budapest in 1879 and died in Balassagyarmat in 1944 . He was the eldest son of Karl Balog de Mánko-Bük and Margaret Bérczy and married Aline Csernyus de Kökeszi.

He was a judge in the area of ​​Szecseny and Balassagyarmat from 1903 to 1907 and since 1907 a ministerial clerk in the Kön. Ung. Gobernium in Fiume.

After the fall of the Habsburg Monarchy, he settled in Pécs between 1923 and 1934 , where he did research at the University of Pécs. Later he became director of the translation department in the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior in Budapest with the rank of ministerial advisor.

He was a member of the literary society Kisfauldy since 1942 and specialized in the history of Roman antiquity and medieval German poetry. He also published some works on the literary figure of his great-uncle Imre Madách. He wrote for the German-language newspaper Pester Lloyd and after his death in 1989 was awarded the Horváth Endre Prize by the city of Balassagyarmat.

Aladár Balog de Mankobük

Balog v. Mankobükk (Hussar Regiment No. 11) 1918

Aladár was born in Budapest in 1880 as the son of Karl Balog de Mánko-Bük and Margaret Bérczy. He served in the 11th Hussar Regiment since 1898, was first lieutenant since 1906 and captain since 1914.

He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army alongside Prince Kyrill of Bulgaria and Major Boris Crown Prince of Bulgaria until 1918. He not only fought during the entire First World War, but also in the Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913.

In 1915 he married Angela Nagy, the widow of the late Gyula Mesterházy.

Dr. Paul Balogh de Mankobük

Dr. Paul (Ung. Pál) was born in Gödöllö in 1889 and studied political science at the University of Budapest and later worked in finance from 1924 to 1934.

In 1934 he worked in the Hungarian Ministry of Defense where he looked after war orphans, child protection and social security. In 1945 he was moved to the Ministry of Social Affairs where he became director of the war department. In 1949 he left the Ministry of Social Affairs with the rank of "HM Council of Ministers" (Ung. HM miniszteri osztálytanácsos), so ministerial advisor.

Since he was not receiving a pension, Dr. Mankobük worked in the private sector after 1949, namely in the insurance business. First he was with the French Insurance Company in Palais Foncia on Andrássy Street and later with the State Insurance Company.

He was a member of the patriotic society "Hungarian Brotherhood" (Magyar Közösség). The society functioned similarly to that of the Freemasons, but with a clear Hungarian irredentism (Hungarian territories lost through the First World War) and the aim of which was to expand its network with members in relevant leadership positions.

In the summer of 1951, the then Communist government of Hungary decided to expel the "undesirable people" from Budapest. The family's apartment in Budapest's Zugló district was expropriated by the state. Dr. Paul, along with his wife and daughter, was expelled as a "kulak" or enemy of democracy to the distant community of Gyulaháza, which they were only allowed to leave with the permission of the police.

Other notable people

  • Lajos Balogh mankóbüki (1812–1850): Protestant priest
  • István Balogh Mankóbük (Gödöllő, 1883): Lawyer and academic in Pécs
  • Paul and Claire Balogh de Manko-Bük: Founders in 1958 of the international French company " Balogh-RFID " based in Paris. Since 2016 part of the Swedish group "TagMaster" and sold by Etienne Balogh de Manko-Bük
  • Lajos Balogh (Bük, 1933): Hungarian linguist and university professor at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. 1977 Bálint Csűry Prize and 2006 Dezső Pais Prize
  • Charles Balogh de Manko-Bük (Paris, 1957): French surgeon in Grenoble

literature

  • Géza Csergheö , Iván Nagy : The nobility of Hungary including the neighboring countries of the St. Stephen's Crown . SIEBMACHER's large book of arms, Nuremberg 1893.
  • Georg Freiherr von Frölichsthal: The nobility of the Habsburg monarchy in the 19th and 20th centuries . Bauer & Raspe, 2008, p. 938 .
  • Gyula Alapi and Count Gyula Andrássy: Magyarország címeres Königyve (Liber armorum Hungariae) . Budapest 1913.
  • Genealogical paperback of the noble houses of Austria . Fifth vintage edition. Otto Maass'Söhne, Vienna 1913.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Béla Kempelen :: Magyar Nemes Családok 1911.
  2. SAVARIA Bulletin of VAS County Museums . Vas County Museum Directorate.
  3. SOPRON SZABAD KIRÁLYI VÁROS TÖRTÉNETE. . SZÉKELY ÉS TÁRSA KÖNYVNYOMDÁJA, Sopron 1924.
  4. Military schematism of the Austrian Empire . kk Hof- und Staats-Aerarial-Druckerei, 1845.
  5. ^ The pupils of the Wiener Neustädter Military Academy from the establishment of the institute to our day . Druck und Commissions-Verlag by FB Gritler, Vienna 1870, pp. 465–466.
  6. Streffleur's military magazine 1831.
  7. Military schematism of the Austrian Empire . Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1838.
  8. Military schematism of the Austrian Empire . Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1840.
  9. Schematism for the imperial and royal army and for the imperial and royal navy for 1898 . Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1897.
  10. Schematism for the Imperial and Royal Army and for the Imperial and Royal Navy for 1908 . Printing and publishing of the KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1907.
  11. Schematism for the KuK Army and for the KuK Navy for 1914 . Printing and publishing of the kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1914, pp. 640, 714.
  12. Ranking lists of the Imperial and Royal Army 1918 . KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1918, p. 993.
  13. a b c Agnes VAS: NÓGRÁD HONTI-PORTRAIT of IMRE MADÁCH City Library Local History . HELYISMERETI KÖNYVTÁROS,.
  14. Róbert Kis-Kapin: Budapesti kitelepítettek Gyulaházán között 1951-1953 .
  15. Mesterházy kastély, Potypuszta .
  16. ^ The pupils of the Wiener Neustädter Military Academy from the establishment of the institute to our day . Druck und Commissions-Verlag by FB Gritler, Vienna 1870, pp. 465–466.
  17. ^ Austrian military magazine , large booklet. Edition 1845, p. 111.
  18. ^ Genealogical pocket book of the noble houses of Austria 1912–1913
  19. ^ Richard Freiherr von Gablenz: 1848-1908. Order of Maria Theresa Knights of the kuk cavalry . R. Lechner, Vienna 1908.
  20. Holstein .
  21. ^ Slovak National Museum .
  22. ^ Negotiations of the Imperial Geological Institute . N.17, 1879 ( geologie.ac.at [PDF]).
  23. Károly Balogh: Gyermekkorom emlékei 1912th
  24. Tamás Zonda: BALASSAGYARMAT JELES POLGÁRAI , p. 33.
  25. Schematism for the imperial and royal army and for the imperial and royal navy for 1898 . Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1897.
  26. Schematism for the Imperial and Royal Army and for the Imperial and Royal Navy for 1908 . Printing and publishing of the KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1907.
  27. Schematism for the KuK Army and for the KuK Navy for 1914 . Printing and publishing of the kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1914, pp. 640, 714.
  28. Ranking lists of the Imperial and Royal Army 1918 . KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1918, p. 993, 1287.
  29. Róbert Kis-Kapin: Budapesti kitelepítettek Gyulaházán között 1951-1953 .