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TISICUM XXVIII. Irodalom ALMANACH... 1834. Almanach des königl. städt. Theaters in Pesth unter Direction des Herrn Fedor Grimm. Allen Freunden der Kunst mit Hochachtung gewidmet von Paul Wilhelmi und Carl Römer Souffleurs, Pesth 1834. vom ersten December 1834 bis letzten November 1835. BROUCEK, Peter 1988. Ein General im Zwielicht. Die Erinnerungen Edmund Glaises von Horstenau. Band 3: Deutscher Bevollmächtigter General in Kroatien und Zeuge des Untergangs des „Tausendjährigen Reiches.” Wien. FUTTER, Edith 1965. Die bedeutendsten Schauspielerinnen des Leopoldstädter Theaters in der Zeit von 1800 bis 1830. Diss. Univ. Wien. Wien. 6-10. GODSEY, William D. Jun. 2002. Fragment einer Biographie Nikolaus Horthy de Nagybánya und der Wiener Hof. In: Wiener Geschichtsblätter 57.321-328. HOREL, Catherine 2017. Horthy. Budapest. KÖRNER-LAKATOS, Erich 2015. Horthy Miklós. Notizen & Anmerkungen. Münster. NAGY Iván 1858. Magyarország családai czímerekkel és nemzedéki táblákkal. Harmadik kötet. Pest. Rövidítések Géza Cseh: Mysteries of the governor’s family tree The application documents of Miklós Horthy to be chamberlain in the Austrian State Archives The Austrian State Archives keep interesting documents in its Haus, - Hof- und Staatsarchiv section about the origin of the late governor of Hungary. At the end of 1913, Miklós Horthy, the adjutant of Franz Joseph, won the title of imperial and royal chamberlain, which promised him a quick advancement through millitary ranks. The monarch was able to appoint noblemen to be imperial and royal chamberlains who he deemed worthy and who could prove their family trees adequately. The conditions were not easy, since being of noble origin had to be verified for every ancestor back until the great-great-grandparents even on the mother’s side. Miklós Horthy’s submitted ancestor table proved to be imperfect, because he could not adequately prove the noble origin of his grandmother on his mother’s side. The monarch appointed him to be chamberlain anyway, because he was so satisfied with his service as adjutant. During WWII, the leaders of Nazi Germany noticed the imperfections of the governor’s family tree. They figured out that the dancer Erzsébet Gärber was his grandmother on his mother’s side, and they figured she was of jewish origin. The talented dancer and actress was in fact born in a very poor Catholic family in Vienna, although this could not be proven until the digitalization of Austrian and Hungarian parish registers. The documents of the chamberlain application of 1912-13 expound the origin of Miklós Horthy in detail back until his great-great-grandparents. The military certification attached to the application contains reliable data concerning his theoretical and practical abilities, his official and private behaviour and human nature. The published sources can be researched freely by anyone in the Austrian State Archives’ department located on the Minoritenplatz in Vienna. Apart from the registers, the censuses in the Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna and the theater-almanachs kept at the National Széchényi Library contain data clarifying the governor's origins. BFL : Budapest Főváros Levéltára HHStA:Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv MNLJNSZML:Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok Megyei Levéltára MNLOL:Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára OeSta:Österreichisches Staatsarchiv OKäA:Oberstkämmereramt OSZK:Országos Széchényi Könyvtár 170
