Paul von Hegedus (6 June 1861 – 10 November 1944) was a Hungarian noble and a Major-General in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I.
Biography[]
Paul von Hegedus was born in Nagylomnic, Hungary, Austria-Hungary (now Velka Lomnica, Slovakia) on 6 June 1861. He entered the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1879, and he served in the cavalry of the Royal Hungarian Army as an officer. On 10 July 1913, he was promoted to colonel, and he fought in Russia and on the Isonzo front in Italy during World War I. After the collapse of the monarchy back home in 1918, the conservative and royalist Von Hegedus hid to avoid Bela Kun's Bolshevik terror, and he joined Miklos Horthy's national army after the Romanian army deposed the reds in 1919. In October 1921, he assisted King Charles I of Austria in his attempt to return to power in Hungary, but the coup failed, and Von Hegedus was demoted and stripped of all of his titles. Hegedus was also involved with Austrian politics, serving as the chief of a nonexistent navy as a member of the fascist Fatherland Front. He died in Budapest in November 1944 at the age of 83.