Harry Hill Bandholtz (December 18, 1864 – May 7, 1925) was a United States Army career officer who served for more than a decade in the Philippines.

His father, Christian Johan Bandholtz, was an emigrant from Schleswig-Holstein and earned his living as a harness maker.

[10] Bandholtz supported the United States colonial government during a period when violent rebellion to American rule continued in the Philippines.

[11] Bandholtz was largely responsible for orchestrating the capture of Filipino insurgent leader and former revolutionary Macario Sakay, who had continued anti-American guerrilla activities after most hostilities in the Philippines had ended.

[18] Bandholtz is widely considered to be the "father" of the United States Army's Military Police Corps.

[19] Between August 1919 and February 9, 1920, Bandholtz was the US representative to the Inter-Allied Supreme Command's Military Mission in Hungary.

[20] He is also remembered for preventing the Romanian military authorities from removing artefacts from the Hungarian National Museum on October 5, 1919; he was "armed" only with a riding crop.

"[23] On February 13, 1920 Bandholtz was interviewed by the correspondent of The New York Times in Paris, during which he stated he stopped by himself the Romanian military from entering the Hungarian National Museum, and thus preventing a "gold treasure" from being stolen.

[22] However, in his own memoirs An Undiplomatic Diary by the American Member of the Inter-Allied Military Mission to Hungary, 1919–1920, he did not mention any gold treasure, only museum artefacts.

[25] Mineworkers tried to compromise, saying they would stop fighting if federal troops would come and enforce the law evenhandedly, but this was initially refused by Bandholtz.

[26] The 13th Brigade was deactivated in August 1921 and Bandholtz assumed duty as commanding general, Military District of Washington.

[27] Bandholtz retired from active service for disability on November 4, 1923, and was promoted to the rank of major general.

[29] In April 1922, a few months after the divorce was made final, Bandholtz married Inez Claire Gorman in New York City.

In 1936, the Hungarian government commissioned a statue in Bandholtz's honor and placed it in Szabadság tér (Liberty Square) across from the US embassy in Budapest.

It is inscribed with the following (a quote from him): I simply carried out the instructions of my government, as I understood them, as an officer and a gentleman of the United States Army.

[21]The statue, made by prominent Hungarian sculptor Miklós Ligeti, depicts Bandholtz with his riding crop in one hand.

According to the historical fact about his standoff with the Romanian military, he had persuaded them to stop looting the National Museum with nothing more than the crop and the force of his personality.

The incident is described in detail in his book An Undiplomatic Diary by the American Member of the Inter-Allied Military Mission to Hungary, 1919–1920.

It was returned to its original place in the park in front of the US embassy on July 6, 1989, a day before President George H. W. Bush's historic visit to Budapest.