Alexander Radó
| Sándor Radó | |
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| Born | Radó Sándor 5 November 1899 Újpest, Hungary |
| Died |
20 August 1981 (aged 81) Budapest, Hungary |
| Occupation | Geographer, Soviet military intelligence agent during World War II |
Alexander (Alex) Radó (5 November 1899, Újpest, near Budapest – 20 August 1981, Budapest), born as Sándor Radó and also known as Alexander Radolfi, was a Hungarian cartographer and a Soviet military intelligence agent in World War II.
Radó was born into a Jewish family in Újpest, at the time an industrial suburb of Budapest. His father (Gábor Reich) was first a clerk at a trading firm and later a businessman. In 1917, after graduation from gymnasium (high school), Radó was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army and was sent to fortress artillery officer training school. Graduated at the officer candidate school in 1918, he was assigned to an artillery regiment. During this time, he also studied law as a correspondence student of the University of Budapest.
In December 1918, after the fall of Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Radó joined the Hungarian Communist Party. When the communists came to power in Hungary in March 1919, he was appointed as cartographer on the staff of a Hungarian Red Army division. Ferenc Münnich, the political commissar of the division, then made him commissar of the division's artillery. Radó took part in fighting against Czechoslovak forces and in fighting against anti-communist insurgents in Budapest.
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