Béla Pap de Szill (26 March 1845 – 1 October 1916) was a Hungarian military officer and politician, who served as

Minister of Defence A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is the part of a government responsible for matters of defence and military forces, found in states where the government is divid ...

from March to April 1906, during the Hungarian Constitutional Crisis of 1905.

Biography

After finishing

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, Pap involved in the Austrian Imperial Army since 1866, when he became sapper lieutenant of the 2nd Technical Regiment, which participated in the

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. In 1899, he was promoted to major general. From 1901 to 1904 he served as Chief of the 3rd Group of the Ministry of Defence. After that he was promoted to lieutenant general and appointed Department Head of the Joint Ministry of Defence of the

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, holding this office between 1904 and 1905. In March 1906, he was made Minister of Defence in the non-partisan Hungarian cabinet of

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for a period of one month. He was again Department Head of the Joint Ministry of Defence following that, between 1906 and 1907. He retired in 1907. In June 1904, Pap and his descendants were granted nobility and permission for the right to use prefix "de Szill" by Emperor-King

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.Minisztertanácsi jegyzőkönyvek 1867–1944
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Works

* Pap, Béla: ''Die anwendung der optischen Telegraphie im Felde'',

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, 1871.

References

Sources

Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon
1845 births 1916 deaths People from Austria-Hungary People from Marcali Hungarian soldiers Ministers of defence of Hungary {{Hungary-politician-stub