Prónay, Pál, 1874-1944 or 1945

LC control no.	no2011173012
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Prónay, Pál, 1874-1944 or 1945 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	18741102
Death date	[1944-12,1945-02]
Place of birth	Romhány, Hungary
Place of death	Budapest, Hungary
Affiliation	Magyar Országos Véderő Egyesület
Profession or occupation	Paramilitary commander
Found in	Pál Prónay, c2011: page 2 (head of Admiral Miklos Horthy's bodyguards and the leader of the most important Hungarian paramilitary unit between 1919 and 1922; born in 1875 in a minor aristocratic family in the village of Romhany, Nograd County, in the northern part of Hungary; attended the famous Lahne Military Institute in Sopron; became a hussar officer at the turn of the century; established the Hungarian Association of National Defense (Magyar Orszagos Vedero Egyesulet or MOVE) in early 1919) page 3 (disappeared at the end of the Second World War; he most likely fell during the Battle of Budapest in December 1944 or early 1945) Wikipeida, via WWW, Novemver 3, 2011 (Pál Prónay; born November 2, 1874 in Romhany, Hungary; died December 1944/February 1945?; a Hungarian reactionary and paramilitary commander in the years following the First World War; he is considered to have been the most brutal of the Hungarian National Army officers who led the White Terror that followed Hungary's brief 1919 Communist coup d'état; he vanished in the final weeks of the Second World Ward and is believed to have fallen during the siege of Budapest) VIAF, November 7, 2011 (hdg.: Prónay, Pál; usage: Prónay Pal)