General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

is a joint body organised within the Ministry of Defence.

It is responsible for development, organisation, and equipping, training and functioning of the first strategic echelon (stand-by forces) and the other strategic echelon (reserve). The General Staff coordinates the tasks of the armed forces of the Republic of Hungary, develops recommendations for the planning, organisation and supervision of the Ministry’s military duties, and for the development of combat capability.

Since 2007, the Hungarian Defense Forces is under a unified command structure. The Ministry of Defence maintains the political and civil control over the army. The military

Military

A military is an organization authorized by its greater society to use lethal force, usually including use of weapons, in defending its country by combating actual or perceived threats. The military may have additional functions of use to its greater society, such as advancing a political agenda e.g...

 leadership is exercised by the Defense Staff of the Ministry of Defense. A subordinate Joint Forces Command is coordinating and commanding the HDF corps.

Chief of General Staff

The Chief of General Staff heads the General Staff. The current Chief of the Staff is Colonel General Tibor Benkő

Tibor Benkő

Tibor Benkő was an Hungarian Olympic fencer and modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics.-References:...

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Royal Army of Hungary

• General Pál Nagy (1922 – 1925)
• ? (1925 – 1930)
• Colonel General Kamilló Kárpáthy (1930 – 1935)
• Colonel General József Somkuthy
  József Somkuthy
  József Somkuthy was a Hungarian military officer and politician, who served as Minister of Defence for a month in 1936. From 1935 he was the Chief of Army Staff. After the death of Gyula Gömbös he resigned along with the whole members of the cabinet. He was retired. His remaining fate is...
  
   (1935 – 1936)
• Lieutenant General Jenő Rátz
  Jenő Rátz
  Vitéz Jenő Rátz de Nagylak was a Hungarian military officer and politician, who served as Minister of Defence in 1938. He fought in the First World War. During the Hungarian Soviet Republic he served in the National Army. From 1 October 1936 he became Chief of Army Staff of the Magyar Honvédség....
  
   (1936 – 1938)
• Lieutenant General Lajos Keresztes-Fischer
  Lajos Keresztes-Fischer
  Lajos Keresztes-Fischer was a Hungarian military officer, who served as Chief of the General Staff in 1938. His older brother was Ferenc Keresztes-Fischer, a politician and Minister of the Interior.-Career:...
  
   (1938)
• General Henrik Werth
  Henrik Werth
  Henrik Werth was a Hungarian military officer, who served as Chief of Army Staff during the Second World War.-References:*...
  
   (1938 – 1941)
• Colonel General Ferenc Szombathelyi
  Ferenc Szombathelyi
  Vitéz Ferenc Szombathelyi was a Hungarian military officer, who served as Chief of Army Staff during the Second World War.-Military career:...
  
   (1941 – 1944)
• Colonel General János Vörös
  János Vörös
  János Vörös was a Hungarian military officer and politician, who served as Minister of Defence in the unofficial Interim National Government which led by Béla Miklós. He fought in the First World War at the Eastern Front and the Italian Campaign. He was appointed as Chief of Army Staff on 19 March...
  
   (1944)
• Colonel General Károly Beregfy
  Károly Beregfy
  Károly Beregfy was a Hungarian military officer and politician, who served as Minister of Defence between 1944–45....
  
   (1944 – 1945)

People's Army of Hungary

• Colonel General János Vörös
  János Vörös
  János Vörös was a Hungarian military officer and politician, who served as Minister of Defence in the unofficial Interim National Government which led by Béla Miklós. He fought in the First World War at the Eastern Front and the Italian Campaign. He was appointed as Chief of Army Staff on 19 March...
  
   (1945 – 1946)
• Vacant (1946 – 1948)
• Lieutenant General László Sólyom (1948 – 1950)
• Lieutenant General István Bata
  István Bata
  István Bata was a Hungarian military officer and politician, who served as Minister of Defence between 1953 and 1956. During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 he divided Budapest into three military districts and gave an order to defeat the revolution. On 26 October Bata was relieved of all of his...
  
   (1950 – 1953)
• Major General Béla Székely (1953 – 1954)
• Major General Lajos Tóth (1954 – 1956)
• Major General István Kovács (1956)
• Major General László Hegyi  (1956 – 1957)
• Lieutenant General Ferenc Ugrai  (1957 – 1963)
• Lieutenant General Károly Csémi (1963 – 1973)
• Colonel General István Oláh
  István Oláh
  István Oláh was a Hungarian military officer and politician, who served as Minister of Defence from 1984 until his death.-References:*...
  
    (1973 – 1984)
• Lieutenant General József Pacsek  (1984 – 1989)
• Lieutenant General László Borsits (1989 – 1990)

Honvédség (since 1990)

The army is called Magyar Honvédség since end of communism in Hungary.

• Lieutenant General László Borsits (1990 – 1991)
• Colonel General János Deák (1991 – 1994)
• Lieutenant General Sándor Németh (1994 – 1996)
• Lieutenant General Ferenc Végh (1996 – 1999)
• Colonel General Lajos Fodor (1999 – 2003)
• Lieutenant General Zoltán Szenes (2003 – 2005)
• Colonel General András Havril (2005 – 2009)
• Colonel General László Tömböl (2009 – 2010)
• Colonel General Tibor Benkő (2010 – )

See also

• Military of Hungary
  Military of Hungary
  The Hungarian Defence Force is the national military of Hungary. It currently has two branches, the Hungarian Ground Force and the Hungarian Air Force....