The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Szilárd  Bakay

Bakay, Szilárd

Lieutenant-General

* 8th of September 1892

† 17th of March 1947

Promotions

1931-11-01 Lieutenant-Colonel
1935-11-01 Colonel
1940-07-01 Major-General
1942-10-01 Lieutenant-General (Seniority from 1942-09-29)
1991-03-18 Colonel-General (Posthumously)

Service

1929-11-04 1933-03-31 Chief of Section 2, Bureau VI, Ministry of Defence
1933-04-01 1933-09-15 Military Attaché to Yugoslavia
1933-09-15 1933-12-31 Chief of Section B, Chancellery, Ministry of Defence
1934-01-01 1939-05-01 Military Attaché to Bulgaria
1939-07-01 1942-02-17 Commanding Officer 17th Infantry Brigade
1942-02-17 1942-08-01 General Officer Commanding 17th Light Division
1942-08-01 1943-05-15 General Officer Commanding Hungarian Occupation Group East [Ukraine]
1943-05-15 1944-07-01 General Officer Commanding III Corps
1944-07-01 1944-08-01 President of the Supreme Military Court
1944-08-01 1944-10-16 Acting General Officer Commanding I Corps
1944-XX-XX 1945-XX-XX In German prison and Mauthausen concentration camp
1945-XX-XX 1946-XX-XX Prisoner of War
1946-04-11 Condemned to death by Soviet Military Court as war criminal
1947-03-14 Executed
1992-09-22 Rehabilitated by Soviet authorities
Picture source: Courtesy of Valdis Kursietis