General Martin von Zoeld, the only Jewish General in the Hungarian army, celebrated his seventieth birthday here.
General von Zoeld commanded a battalion at the outbreak of the War and led it into Dalmatia. He defended the Peninsula Crotolle and beat back the Montenegrin attack. He later distinguished himself in battles in Volhynia and Bukowina. The Emperor Franz Joseph conferred on him the Order of Nobility for his military services, and awarded him the Iron Cross.
During the later stages of the War, the General distinguished himself as a strategist in the fighting in Eastern Galicia and the Ukraine, and later on the Italian front. He won the Military Service Cross, the Leopold Order and the Cross of an Officer of the Order of Albrecht of Saxony. He led his regiment back in full order from the Italian front.
During the proletarian dictatorship in Hungary he entered the national army and was appointed General by Regent Horthy.
General von Zoeld is active in Jewish affairs in Hungary and is president of the Union of Hungarian Jews.
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