WW2 Hungarian Royal Hungarian Army 1920-1945 Reference Book. The Croatian–Hungarian Settlement of 1868 granted the Croats the right to introduce Croatian as their working and command language within their units. To see how we use this information about you and how you can unsubscribe from our newsletter subscriptions, view our, The Red Army of the Great Patriotic War 1941–45. In the years that followed the armament of the army, which had hitherto still consisted of wartime and pre-war stock, was modernised and, especially under Gyula Gömbös, defence minister from 1929, clandestinely expanded. Royal Hungarian Army ww2. Thereafter units were designated only by their numerical designation, but the practice of honoric titles remained in the Honvéd. Enter your email address below to sign up to our General newsletter for updates from Osprey Publishing, Osprey Games and our parent company Bloomsbury. officers like Gyula Gömbös, Döme Sztójay and Anton Lehár. On 11 April the 2nd Army under Gusztáv Jány began moving to the front occupied by the German Army Group South near Kursk. On 21 May 1893 the Honvéd Memorial was unveiled in Budapest in commemoration of the deeds of the Hungarian national army during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848-49. Its Defence Minister was ex-Chief of the General Staff, János Vörös, who had also defected to the Soviets. In April the 1st Army under Géza Lakatos was sent to the front in East Galicia, in order to prevent the Soviets seizing the Carpathian passes. The peacetime strength of the Royal Hungarian Army grew to 80,000 men organized into seven corps commands. The Honvéd was finally defeated by Austria with Russian assistance. info@ospreypublishing.com This item will ship to United States, but the seller has not specified shipping options. or Honvéd regiments according to the numbers required. However, both Ban and the Defence Minister were subordinated to the Prime Minister of Hungary . The commitment for compulsory service ended at the age of 36.[9]. The Royal Hungarian Army was Germany's largest ally on the Eastern Front, but information about the Hungarian Army in English is rare. JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. You must have JavaScript enabled in your browser to utilize the functionality of this website. Initially restricted by the Treaty of Trianon to 35,000 men, the army was steadily upgraded during the 1930s and fought on the side of the Axis powers in the Second World War. By the end of October it had reached Izium on the Seversky Donets, before being recalled in late November to Hungary. In November 1938 after the First Vienna Award, Hungarian troops occupied the disputed areas of Slovakia and Carpatho-Ukraine. This was probably aimed at securing a rapid agreement with the Little Entente states on arms equality, something that was achieved by the Bled agreement in August 1938. The Royal Hungarian Army (Hungarian language: Magyar Királyi Honvédség, German language: Königlich Ungarische Armee) was the name given to the land forces of the Kingdom of Hungary in the period from 1922 to 1945. The remaining Jews, along with members of other national minorities and politically unreliable soldiers, were sent to serve in unarmed labour battalions. The 2nd Hungarian Army was disbanded in December 1944 after suffering heavy losses and the remaining units absorbed into the 3rd Army. At the start of World War Two the Royal Hungary had a standing army of 34.000 men and this grew to three army groups by 1940. honvédségről", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Royal_Hungarian_Army&oldid=961411925, Military units and formations established in 1919, Military units and formations disestablished in 1945, Military units and formations of Hungary in World War II, Articles containing Hungarian-language text, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Olaf Richárd Wulff (10 March 1920 – 30 April 1933), Ferenc Galántai Hild (1 May 1933 – 30 April 1934), Richárd Dietrich (1 May 1934 – 30 April 1938), Ármin Bauszern (1 May 1940 – 30 April 1942), Captain Guidó Tasnády (1 May 1940 – 30 April 1942), Vice-Admiral (Lieutenant-General) Kálmán Hardy (1 May 1942 – 15 October 1944), Major-General (Rear-Admiral) Ödön Trunkwalter (16 October 1944 – 8 May 1945), This page was last edited on 8 June 2020, at 09:28.