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    Miklós Horthy Jr.

    Hungarian politician and noble

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  1. The younger Miklós Horthy was liberated by the Fifth U.S. Army on May 5, 1945. [2] Father and son went into exile in Portugal, where Miklós Horthy Jr. lived almost fifty years before dying at Estoril, near Lisbon, in 1993. He had two daughters with his first wife Countess Mária Consueló Károlyi (1905–1976), Zsófia Horthy (1928–2004 ...

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  2. Horthy's son Miklós Horthy, Jr., was meeting with Soviet representatives to finalize the surrender when Skorzeny and his troops forced their way into the meeting and kidnapped the younger Horthy at gunpoint. Trussed up in a carpet, Miklós Jr. was immediately driven to the airport and flown to Germany to serve as a hostage.

  3. Oct 19, 2016 · Miklós Horthy. Horthy was 88 when the 1956 revolution broke out in Budapest and he heard about the refugee boys. He visited them to express “his compassionate feelings” towards the Hungarian youth who shared his fate in exile. The visit was a publicity stunt, and he even “adopted” a Hungarian refugee boy, Lajos Kiss. Horthy’s house ...

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  5. Feb. 9, 1957, Estoril, Port. (aged 88) Miklós Horthy (born June 18, 1868, Kenderes, Hung., Austria-Hungary—died Feb. 9, 1957, Estoril, Port.) was a Hungarian naval officer and conservative leader who defeated revolutionary forces in Hungary after World War I and remained the country’s head of state until 1944.

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  6. Oct 15, 2023 · Miklós Horthy Jr. in the Magyar Sport-Almanach in 1935. PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons. The meeting of the government, presided over by the Horthy, began at 10:30 a.m. in the Buda Castle, a few minutes late due to the news of the abduction of Miklós Horthy Jr. Horthy announced that he had requested an armistice from the Soviet Union.

  7. Apr 8, 1999 · The Germans knew about these plans; they began to prepare for a coup d’état and as a first step, on October 15, they kidnapped Miklós Horthy, Jr., the regent’s only surviving son, whose older brother had been killed at the front. Horthy announced his intention to surrender to the Red Army that same day, but the army high command, imbued ...

  8. HORTHY, MIKLÓS (1868–1957) Hungarian statesman. Regent of Hungary during the turbulent period from 1920 until his arrest by the Nazis in 1944, Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya was born into a noble Protestant family in 1868. As a young man he served in the Austro-Hungarian navy, quickly ascending the ranks to become one of the navy's most valued ...