Samu Hazai

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Samu Hazai
Miklos Horthy
AllegianceAustria-Hungary Austria-Hungary
Years of service1873–1918
RankColonel General
Commands heldForty-sixth Infantry Regiment
Battles/warsWorld War I
AwardsOrder of the Iron Crown, Order of Leopold

Jewish origin, who served as Minister of Defence of Hungary
between 1910 and 1917.

Decorations and awards

  • Military Merit Medal in bronze (Austria-Hungary, March 1900) - for his services as an instructor.
  • Order of the Iron Crown, 3rd class (Austria, June 1904) - for his services in the military training
  • Knight's Cross of the Order of Leopold (Austria, 10 April 1908)
  • Grand Cross of the
    Order of Military Merit
    (Spain, 1909)
  • Order of the Red Eagle, 1st class (Prussia, 1910)
  • Order of Prince Danilo I, 1st class (Montenegro, 1910)
  • Appointment to the Privy Council (December 1910)
  • Order of the Iron Crown, 1st class (12 August 1913)
  • Military Merit Cross, 1st class with war decoration (Austria-Hungary, 3 February 1915)
  • Star of the
    Decoration of Honour for Services to the Red Cross
    (1915)
  • Iron Cross of 1914, 1st and 2nd class (Prussia, 1915)
  • Grand Cross of the Military Merit with Swords (Bavaria, 1915)
  • Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold (June 1916); war decoration added on 10 August 1916
  • Large Military Merit Medal in Gold (25 November 1916)
  • Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (Württemberg, 1916)
  • Grand Cross with swords and golden star of the Albert Order, (Saxony, 1916)
  • Order of the Medjidie, 1st class (Ottoman Empire, 1917)
  • Gallipoli Star
    ("Iron Crescent", Ottoman Empire, 1917)
  • Imtiyaz Medal
    in Gold (Ottoman Empire, 1917)
  • Military Merit Cross, 3rd class with war decoration in diamonds (Austria-Hungary, 12 August 1918)

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Political offices
Preceded by
Minister of Defence

1910–1917
Succeeded by