Vitéz Kocsárd Janky de Bulcs (11 February 1868 – 20 October 1954) was a Hungarian military officer, who served as Chief of Army Staff between 1922 and 1930.

Biography

Kocsárd Janky was in Déva,

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in 1868 to Lieutenant General Lajos Janky. He first studied at

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then at the

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. He was commissioned as a

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Second lieutenant into the Imperial and Royal 1st Hussar Regiment. In 1909 he was the Chief of Staff in the 1st Cavalry Division at Temesvár with the rank of

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. He fought in the

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as commandant of the Imperial and Royal 4th Hussar Regiment. For the heroic Battle of Luck he was awarded the Knights Cross of the

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in 1922. He fought in 1917 on the Italian front and in 1918 he was transferred to

. He was a prisoner of war in 1919. After releasing from captivity he fought against the communists in Hungary on the side of

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. In the Hungarian National Army he was commanding a Brigade at

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. In 1922 he became the Chief of Army Staff of the

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. From 1925 he was also the Commandant of the Army. In 1930 he went into retirement, because

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was made a major general and appointed Minister of Defense in the Bethlen government by Horthy without asking him. After his retirement he lived in his apartment in Budapest until 1951. Communist power relocated him to

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where he died in 1954.

References

Sources

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*''Shvoy Kálmán titkos naplója és emlékirata. 1918-1945.'' Perneky Mihály (szerk.), Kossuth Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 1983. {{DEFAULTSORT:Janky, Kocsard 1868 births 1954 deaths Hungarian soldiers Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I Austro-Hungarian Army officers People from Deva, Romania