Miklós Mendelényi

Miklós Mendelényi was born on 20 March 1920 in Kiskunhalas, his father was a civil school principal. He began his actual service with the 20th/II Battalion, was promoted to infantry lieutenant in 1942 after graduating from the Ludovika Academy, and in 1943 was transferred to the Galanta gendarmerie battalion. He was subsequently transferred to the Budapest Traffic Control Command. After his transfer to the West, he remained in the city and went into hiding. On 12 February, he became the driver of a Russian lieutenant colonel for two weeks, and was not taken prisoner of war. He enlisted in the new army, where he was accepted, but within a few days he was arrested because of his gendarme past. On 25 August 1949, the People's Court acquitted him of the charges. From 1955 he rented a restaurant and then a liquor store in Balatonboglár. In 1958 he was stripped of his rank.

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