Hugó Sónyi

He was a member of the House of Magnates, and the Captain General of the Hungarian Order of Vitéz.

[2] He subsequently joined World War I as a member of the Corps' General Staff and served first on the Serbian and Italian battlefields, and then later in Albania and Macedonia.

[2] During the Hungarian Soviet Republic, he was commander of the 29th Brigade in the victorious campaign against the Czechs.

[2] After the revolutions and the reorganization of the army, he was appointed to the Ministry of Defense where he headed the presidential department between 1925 and 1929.

[2] From 1935 to 1939 Hugó Sónyi held a seat in the House of Magnates,[2] and was given the title of Royal Privy Councilor on October 22, 1938.