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Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya | |
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.jpg) Horthy in 1935 | |
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| Born | Miklós László János Benedek Horthy de Nagybánya (1907-02-14)14 February 1907 |
| Died | 28 March 1993(1993-03-28) (aged 86) |
| Children | 2 |
Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya II (Hungarian:Horthy Miklós László János Benedek;Hungarian pronunciation:[ˈhortiˈmikloːʃˈlaːsloːˈjaːnoʃˈbɛnɛdɛk]; 14 February 1907 – 28 March 1993) was the younger son ofHungarian regent AdmiralMiklós Horthy and, until the end ofWorld War II, a politician.
In his youth, Miklós Horthy Jr. and his older brother,István, were active members of a Roman Catholic Scout troop of the Hungarian Scout Association (Magyar Cserkészszövetség), although they were both Protestant.[1]
For a time, Miklós Jr. was the Hungarian ambassador toBrazil.
After the death of István in 1942, Miklós Jr. became more powerful in his father's government and supported his efforts to end the involvement of theKingdom of Hungary with theAxis powers. But on October 15, 1944,Nazi Germany launchedOperation Panzerfaust. As part of this operation, Miklós Jr. waskidnapped by Germancommandos led byOtto Skorzeny, and threatened with death unless his father resigned and agreed to appoint theArrow Cross Party as the new government. His father complied, and Horthy Jr. survived the war (he became the only one of Horthy’s four children to outlive their father).
While his father was placed underhouse arrest inBavaria, the younger Miklós was sent to theDachau concentration camp. Late in April 1945, Miklós Jr. wastaken to Tyrol with other prominent inmates of Dachau. There theSS abandoned their prisoners asAllied forces advanced. The younger Miklós Horthy was liberated by theFifth U.S. Army on May 5, 1945.[2]
Father and son emigrated toPortugal, where Miklós Horthy Jr. lived almost fifty years before dying atEstoril, near Lisbon, in 1993.[3] He had two daughters with his first wife Countess Mária Consueló Károlyi (1905–1976), Zsófia Horthy (1928–2004, Mrs Henry Freytag, then Mrs Charles Filliettaz) and Nicolette Horthy (1929–1990, Baroness Georg Bachofen von Echt). He was also a founding partner ofHovione, a Portuguese pharmaceutical company.[4]
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