Árpád Lajtos
Hungarian military officer (1910–1986)
Árpád Lajtos de Szentmária (22 November 1910 – 25 May 1986) was a Hungarian military officer.
His career before 1941
He was born into a military family. In 1928 he enrolled at the Ludovica Academy and he was commissioned as a lieutenant on 20 August 1932. He was assigned to the 2nd Infantry regiment, in Budapest. In 1935 he was promoted to First lieutenant.
In 1936 he enrolled to the Royal Hungarian Honved Staff Academy, which was the camouflaged military university of Hungary, hidden under the name of Regulation Review Course for Officers. In 1940, after graduation he was assigned to the 14th Infantry Brigade, stationed in Szeged, where he served as a trainee staff officer under the command of Marcel Stomm. From December 1940 he became the Staff Officer of the 17th Infantry Regiment, in Debrecen and soon, on 4 April 1941 he was promoted to Captain.
In the Second World War and in captivity (1941–1948)
In 1941 he was promoted to Chief of Staff of the VI Corps, and in October 1942 he was assigned to the Staff of the 2nd Hungarian Army, at the Eastern Front. After the elimination of that field army at the Don by the Soviets, he served as a liaison officer at the Headquarters of the German Army Group South.
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