Sándor Rózsa
Sándor Rózsa (born July 10, 1813 in Röszke , † November 22, 1878 in Szamosújvár, today Gherla ) was a Hungarian bandit in the Great Alföld . His life was literally transfigured and romanticized by several writers, including Zsigmond Móricz and Gyula Krúdy , so that today he is perceived as a heroic figure, comparable e.g. B. with the German Schinderhannes or the English Robin Hood .
Life
As a young man, Rózsa continued his grandfather and father's craft as a robber leader. At the age of 23 (1836) he received his first prison sentence in Szeged . After he broke out there, he again led the life of a robber chief and became famous and feared through numerous acts of violence.
In October 1848 he joined the Hungarian Revolution with his 150-strong gang . Kossuth used him as leader of a volunteer corps against the Serbs and sent him to Komorn as a scout. With their unusual appearance and combat tactics, Rózsa and his band were initially successful, but were soon disbanded due to a lack of discipline.
After the suppression of the revolution, Rózsa was forced to flee and resumed his previous life as a robber. He was not captured until 1856 after one of his companions betrayed him. After a three-year trial he was sentenced to death, but then to life imprisonment , and spent nine years in the prisons of Kufstein , Theresienstadt and Petrovaradin until he was released on the occasion of a general amnesty in 1868.
However, in the same year he returned to his old lifestyle, robbing stagecoaches and even a railroad train in 1868. The royal commissioner, Count Gedeon Ráday, succeeded in luring the robber into the Szeged fortress. He was arrested again on January 12, 1869, and again sentenced to life imprisonment in 1872 with numerous comrades.
Rózsa died in Gherla prison.
In 1971, the six-part television series Sándor Rózsa, Rebel of the Puszta was filmed in Hungary based on the model by Zsigmond Móricz .
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Rózsa, Sándor . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 27th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1874, pp. 188–191 ( digitized version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sándor Rózsa, Rebel der Puszta In: fernsehserien.de , accessed on June 5, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rózsa, Sándor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian bandit |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Röszke |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 22, 1878 |
| Place of death | Szamosújvár, today Gherla |