Horthy miklos biography definition

Horthy de Nagybánya, Miklós

Hungarian admiral and statesman who served as regent from 1920 to 1944.

Horthy was born in Kenderes in 1868, and educated at the Naval Academy of Fiume.

During World War I (1914-1918) he became admiral of the Austro-Hungarian navy. After the war he returned to Hungary and organized a counterrevolution against the communist government of B�la Kun. Horthy was made commander in chief of the Hungarian armed forces in 1919, and in 1920 the National Assembly elected him regent.

Horthy miklos biography definition

As regent he defeated the attempts (in March and October 1921) of Charles I, former emperor of Austria and king of Hungary, to regain the throne, a move in which Horthy was supported by the Hungarian government. Under his regime, Hungary became the first post-World War I nationalist dictatorship in Europe, ruthlessly suppressing all political opposition.

During the 1930s, Horthy's government, supported by a strong tide of nationalism, wanted the