Samu Hazai

Samu Hazai
Born	26 December 1851 Rimaszombat, Kingdom of Hungary
Died	10 February 1942 (aged 90) Budapest, Hungary
Allegiance	Austria-Hungary
Years of service	1873–1918
Rank	Colonel General
Commands held	Forty-sixth Infantry Regiment
Battles/wars	World War I
Awards	Order of the Iron Crown, Order of Leopold

Baron Samu Hazai (German: Samuel Freiherr von Hazai, 26 December 1851 – 10 February 1942) was a Hungarian military officer and politician of Jewish origin, who served as Minister of Defence of Hungary between 1910 and 1917.

Decorations and awards

• Military Merit Medal in bronze (Austria-Hungary, March 1900) - for his services as an instructor.
• Order of the Iron Crown, 3rd class (Austria, June 1904) - for his services in the military training
• Knight's Cross of the Order of Leopold (Austria, 10 April 1908)
• Grand Cross of the Order of Military Merit (Spain, 1909)
• Order of the Red Eagle, 1st class (Prussia, 1910)
• Order of Prince Danilo I, 1st class (Montenegro, 1910)
• Appointment to the Privy Council (December 1910)
• Order of the Iron Crown, 1st class (12 August 1913)
• Military Merit Cross, 1st class with war decoration (Austria-Hungary, 3 February 1915)
• Star of the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Red Cross (1915)
• Iron Cross of 1914, 1st and 2nd class (Prussia, 1915)
• Grand Cross of the Military Merit with Swords (Bavaria, 1915)
• Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold (June 1916); war decoration added on 10 August 1916
• Large Military Merit Medal in Gold (25 November 1916)
• Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (Württemberg, 1916)
• Grand Cross with swords and golden star of the Albert Order, (Saxony, 1916)
• Order of the Medjidie, 1st class (Ottoman Empire, 1917)
• Gallipoli Star ("Iron Crescent", Ottoman Empire, 1917)
• Imtiyaz Medal in Gold (Ottoman Empire, 1917)
• Military Merit Cross, 3rd class with war decoration in diamonds (Austria-Hungary, 12 August 1918)

References

• Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon