Hausner Gábor - Kincses Katalin Mária - Veszprémy László szerk.: A Hadtörténeti Múzeum Értesítője = Acta Musei Militaris in Hungaria. 5. (Budapest, 2002)
TANULMÁNYOK - MAKAI ÁGNES: Pontosító adatok Horthy Miklós katonai kitüntetéseihez
MELLÉKLET Marine-Attache der Deutschen Botschaft Wien, den 29. Januar 1916. B.No. 75. Euer Hochwohlgeboren beehre ich mich ergebenst mitzuteilen, dass Seine Majestät der Kaiser und König, mein allergnädigster Herr, dem k. u. k. Linienschiffskapitän Herrn Nikolaus von Horthy de Nagy-bänya in Anerkennung seiner herforragenden Verdienste um die Unterstützung der deutschen U-Bootskriegsführung in der Adria das Eiserne Kreuz I. Klasse zu verleihen geruht haben. Die Zustellung der Dekoration wird durch den Marine-Attache bei der k. u. k. Botschaft in Berlin erfolgen. Mit dem Ausdruck meiner vorzüglichsten Hochachtung bin ich Euer Hochwohlgeboren sehr ergebener Franz Freyherz Korvettenkapitän. 25 COMPLEMENTARY DATA TO THE MILITARY DECORATIONS OF MIKLÓS HORTHY Hungarian Regent Miklós Horthy (1868-1957), according to the 1943 List of Civil Servants, was the owner of 65 national and foreign orders and decorations, the most of which he was awarded officially, as regent and head of state. The ones he wore with the greatest pleasure were those deserved in recognition of his hazardous feats of arms, carried out as a regular naval officer of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy during the First World War. Compiling all the data relating to the Regent's awards seems to be an unrealisable task today, considering the differences and deficiencies that emerge in various publications on Horthy, even around the references of his First World War decorations. The study, relying on archival sources from Vienna and Budapest, covers the story of the Regent's medals and crosses that he received as a naval officer. Horthy was awarded several Austro-Hungarian and German decorations for his gallantry in the (combined) operations in the Adriatic Sea during the war, and his successes also contributed to winning the Knight's Cross of the Maria Theresa Military Order in 1921. The author points out the remarkable phenomenon of Horthy's recommendation for a relatively low decoration, the 3 rd Class of the Military Merit Cross with War Decoration, in 1916, when he was already the owner of the Knight's Cross of the Imperial Austrian Order of Leopold with War Decoration and the 3 rd Class of the Imperial Austrian Order of the Iron Crown with War Decoration, two higher kat egy 1916. december I3-i hadparancs alapján csak 1917 januárjától adományozták, de hadidíszítményes kitüntetések esetében a kardokat visszamenőleges hatállyal viselhették az arra érdemesítettek. 25 ÖStA KA K. u. K. Kriegsministerium, Marinesektion, Nr. 401.
