János Gyarmati dr.

János Gyarmati was born on 28 July 1914 in Szeged, his father was a police officer. After his graduation, he served one year as a soldier, then enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Szeged, graduating in 1939. He was subsequently called up again and a year later was transferred to the professional army medical corps. In the second half of 1941, he served as a battalion chief physician in the theatre of operations. According to his citation, 'He continued to dress the wounded despite heavy enemy artillery fire during the fighting at Gordiewka on 27 July 1941. On two occasions during the fighting along the Dnieper, under enemy artillery fire, he drove the wounded transport vehicle to the company commander's fighting position and transported the seriously wounded to the aid station. In February 1944, he was transferred as a captain to the 36th Infantry Regiment, and with this unit he was sent to the front, first to the 12th Reserve Division of the II Reserve Corps, which was deployed as an occupation unit under the German Central Army Group until September 1944. The division was then returned to Hungary and was assigned to the 3rd Hungarian Army. Gyarmati was taken prisoner of war by the Soviets on 12 February 1945, but was released in July. In 1946, he was called up to the border-hunting battalion in kiskunhalas, where he served until 1952, after which he was retired. In 1946, he joined the MKP, but was expelled at the 1948 party meeting. According to a 1955 description, he led a reclusive life [...] He had a petty bourgeois outlook. Politically completely passive. He disagrees with the policies of our party. Definitely anti-democratic." Despite this, he was not stripped of his rank of reserve officer in 1958.