Aurél Stromfeld

Aurél Emil Stromfeld was a Hungarian general. He was the Colonel General of the Austro-Hungarian General Staff and Chief of the General Staff of the Hungarian Red Army during the Hungarian Soviet Republic. He graduated from the Ludovika Academy in 1896, then studied at the Vienna Military Academy until 1905. After serving as a troop officer in Igló, he became a lecturer at the Ludovika in 1907. In 1913, he was appointed the first professor of the Ludovika. In the First World War he served on the Serbian front, where he led the evacuation of Belgrade, and was then posted to the Eastern Front. After the Russian surrender he was sent to the Italian front. There he was caught up in the military collapse of 1918, after which he returned home with the troops he could keep together.