Vilmos Nagy de Nagybaczon
| Vilmos Nagy | |
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| Born |
30 May 1884 Parajd, Austria-Hungary |
| Died |
21 June 1976 (aged 92) Piliscsaba, People's Republic of Hungary |
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| Years of service | 1909–1944 |
| Rank | Colonel General |
| Unit | Hungarian Army |
| Commands held | Hungarian First Army |
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Vilmos Nagy de Nagybaczon (Parajd, 30 May 1884 – Piliscsaba, 21 June 1976), was a commanding general of the Royal Hungarian Army (1920–1945), Minister of Defence, a military theorist and historian.
Vilmos Nagy was born into a family of country nobility of Székely ancestry. His ancestors received their patent of nobility in 1676 from Apafi Mihály I, a ruling prince of Transylvania, and the title of Nagybaczoni (Transl: of Nagybaczon) refers to his ancestral home in Covasna county, Transylvania.
He lost his father, Nagy Zsigmond (Sigmund Nagy), a mining engineer of little means at an early age, and his widowed mother could not provide for the children's education. Thus, with no other options, together with his brother Béla he decided to pursue a military career.
In 1902, he graduated with honours from the Kun Kollégium high school in Szászváros, and his exemplary record gained him tuition free admittance, with continuing financial support, to the prestigious Ludovica Military Academy.
After his graduation in 1905, he elected to serve with the Royal Hungarian Army rather than joining the Imperial Austro-Hungarian Army. This was considered to be a career limiting choice, since there were fewer possibilities for advancement.
His outstanding service surpassed that of his fellow officers and four years after receiving his first commission, he completed the Imperial War College in Vienna (1909–1912). Thus, in his thirtieth year, he was appointed to the Imperial General Staff with the rank of major.
As a young Staff officer in World War I, he participated in operations against Serbia, in the battles of the Carpathian front, the breakthrough at Gorlice, and operations in Volhynia.
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