Dr. Péter Balázs: Guide to the archives of Hungary (Budapest, 1976)

(Special Archives of State Organs and Social Organizations) - A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Levéltára (Archives of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

and repair of fortresses, constructions, cartography, war prisoners and numerous other subjects. Subjected to the General Headquarters, the General Military Tribunal (Judicium delegatum militare mixtum, or lindes Militär Gericht) worked from 1802 to 1871. Its records contain affairs of bequests and of orphans, matters of caution and deposit, law-suits between military and civil persons, or organisations, respectively. The collection of the 1848/49 revolution and fight for freedom contains mainly general orders, reports of the battles, battle orders, dispatches, musterrolls, reports of spies, measures of the govenment commissars in politics, organisation and provision, orders of military administration. Under the head "Records of the period of absolutism" one finds those of the imperial Arad, Pest, Pozsony, Kassa and Nagyvärad military tribunals established after the crushing of the fight for freedom, of the judicial, civil and police sections of the imperial army No. 3, the imperial district headquarters, the law-suits of various movements for independence and other culprits, together with the files of the politically unreliable persons, placed under police observation. In 1884, after the abolition of the General Military Headquarters, the Imperial-Royal Army Corps No. 4 was established in Budapest. Apart from the presidential records, it has the following series: Militär Abteilung and Korps Intendantur. There are data on organisation, stationing, order of battle, training and also on the military assistance given to crush the strikes of harvesters and workers. The archives of the Ministry of Defence (1867-1945) illustrate almost all questions relating to the Honvéd army. With the exception of a few registers the contemporary finding aids have perished, but schemes of the administrative changes in the Ministry are at disposal partly in print Levéltâri Szemle (Archival Review), partly for use on the spot. If research is centered on a name, the recent indices of sections 21 (prisoners of war and military internees) and 13 (military criminal jurisdiction) are a great help. The records of the Honvéd Headquarters (1869-1918) contain many data on this part of the army, especially on the professional members of it. The military records of World War I embrace mainly copies of the papers of the higher leadership (Armeeoberkommando) of the Austro-Hungarian army and those of its higher units (Headquarters of fronts, army groups, armies and army corps). Of the records of the front and hinterland units those of the Hungarian Honvéd units are especially valuable (various Honvéd