Mihály Ibrányi

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Mihály Ibrányi , Hungarian Vajai és ibrányi Ibrányi Mihály (born December 5, 1895 in Debrecen , † October 19, 1962 in Budapest ) was an Austro-Hungarian and Hungarian officer in the Hungarian armed forces in the First and Second World Wars . Most recently he held the rank of lieutenant general . Ibrányi was the holder of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross , which was only awarded to eight Hungarian citizens.

biography

Austria-Hungary and World War I

From 1910 to 1914 Ibrányi attended the Honvéd boys' school in Nagyvárad . On July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary entered the First World War and on August 1, Ibrányi was promoted to ensign and assigned to the Royal Hungarian 29th Infantry Regiment . There Ibrányi acted as a troop officer. After being wounded and recovered, Ibrányi served on a staff where he was entrusted with office work. On March 15, 1915 he was promoted to lieutenant and reassigned to his old regiment. On June 4, 1916, Ibrányi was taken prisoner by Russia . Ibrányi was released from captivity on November 22, 1917 during the Russian Civil War . He then served as a troop officer on the Italian front until the end of the war.

Horthy era and World War II

After the end of the war in Europe, Ibrányi stayed with the Hungarian armed forces, where he was promoted to first lieutenant on November 1, 1920 . In this capacity he initially served on the staff of the Miskolc Military District and from 1921 to 1924 in the 1st Infantry Brigade in Budapest. Ibrányi then studied from November 7, 1923 to October 1, 1925 at the Royal Hungarian Honvéd Military Academy in Budapest. Here he was promoted to captain on November 1, 1924 . After his studies, Ibrányi initially served as a troop officer in the 6th Artillery Regiment and from 1926 to 1927 in the staff service in the 5th mixed brigade . From January 15, 1927 to November 1, 1930 he was used as a staff officer in the Honvéd High Command . Ibrányi married in 1930. He then served in counter-espionage in the Hungarian War Ministry until July 1938 . Here Ibrányi was promoted to major on May 1, 1933 and to lieutenant colonel on November 1, 1936 .

On August 1, 1938 Ibrányi was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the 6th Infantry Brigade, which later became VI. Corps was renamed. Ibrányi , who was promoted to colonel on November 1, 1939, was in charge of this until mid-November 1940. He then moved to the 5th Department of the Hungarian General Staff as head of department. On August 10, 1942, Ibrányi received a front command again and was appointed commander of the 17th light division with division in Debrecen. In this role, he was promoted to major general on October 1, 1942 . At the end of 1943 Ibrányi gave up command of the division and was appointed commander of the 16th Infantry Division on January 1, 1944 . He then briefly commanded the 6th Infantry Division from July 7th to August 1st, 1944 . On August 1, 1944, Ibrányi was appointed commander of the 1st Cavalry Division and Inspector General of the Hussars .

On August 18, 1944, the day the Warsaw Uprising began , the division was to be used to suppress it. Ibrányi refused, however, invoking the historical Polish-Hungarian friendship. The German leadership finally withdrew the order. The division was then moved to Hungary. The division was involved in fighting with the Red Army between the Danube and the Tisza . The division managed to reoccupy the city of Kecskemét in a house-to-house battle in cooperation with a German tank division and the Flak Regiment 133 and to throw the Soviet troops back as far as the Tisza. For this Ibrányi was the sixth Hungarian to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on November 26, 1944. The proposal for this was received by the Army Personnel Office on November 15, 1944 and submitted to Hitler on November 19, 1944 for approval.

On November 1, 1944, Ibrányi was wounded in an air raid near Bugyi . On December 15, 1944, Ibrányi gave command of the 1st Cavalry Division and was appointed Inspector of the Hussars . At the same time he became the commanding general of the V Corps . The V Corps gradually withdrew from the Carpathian Mountains in a north-westerly direction. Ibrányi's role in the last months of the war is incomplete. In February 1945 he is said to have been involved in other battles across the Danube. On March 1, 1945 he was appointed inspector of the hussars and infantry, and in May 1945 he surrendered to US troops.

People's Republic of Hungary

Ibrányi were later extradited to the Soviet Union and sentenced to 25 years of forced labor in 1950 . In 1956 he was allowed to return home to Hungary early. There he earned his living as a boiler heater. Ibrányi died in Budapest on October 19, 1962.

Awards

National awards

Foreign awards

literature

  • Attilla Ótott Kovács: The Hungarian holders of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Scherzers-Militaer-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-938845-02-3 , pp. 92-102.
  • Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearer 1939–1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Kovács p. 92.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Kovács p. 101.
  3. ↑ a b c Kovács p. 102.
  4. ↑ a b Kovács p. 96.
  5. ↑ a b c d Kovács p. 97.
  6. ↑ Scherzer p. 412.
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Kovács p. 100.
  8. ↑ Kovács p. 92.
personal data
SURNAME Ibrányi, Mihály
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vajai és ibrányi Ibrányi Mihály
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian military, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Debrecen , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1962
Place of death Budapest