Béla Hadik

Count Béla Hadik von Futak (January 31, 1905 – February 16, 1971)[1] was a Hungarian politician who immigrated to the United States in 1946.

He was the youngest of four children born to Count János Hadik (1863–1933), who was briefly the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary in October 1918 under Charles IV and his wife, Countess Alexandra Zichy (1873–1949).

Among his extended family was uncles Endre Hadik-Barkóczy (Speaker of the House of Magnates) and Miksa Hadik (the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to Mexico and Sweden).

[3] Through his father, he was a great-great-grandson of András Hadik de Futak, famous for capturing the Prussian capital Berlin during the Seven Years' War.

[7] In 1945, Hadik and his family left Hungary and in 1946, they moved to the United States and lived in Chester, New Hampshire, where they bought a house from her cousin Bill Vanderbilt.

[1] Hadik ran dogs in national and regional field trials, and bred and trained several champions, including Futaki Darocz.