Mikuláš Ferjenčík
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General Mikuláš Ferjenčík | |
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Director of the Czechoslovak National Council of America | |
Commissioner of the Interior of the Slovak Board of Commissioners | |
In office 16 August 1946 – 26 February 1948 | |
Preceded by | |
Succeeded by | |
Commissioner of Defence of the Slovak Board of Commissioners | |
In office 1 September 1944 – 11 April 1945 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Polomka, Slovakia | December 6, 1904
Died | March 4, 1988 Denver, Colorado, United States | (aged 83)
Nationality | Czechoslovakian |
Spouse(s) | Milada Ferjenčík |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Czechoslovakia |
Rank | Brigadier General |
Unit | Slovak Army Veterinary Service |
Brigadier General Dr. Mikuláš Ferjenčík (6 December 1904 – 4 March 1988) was a Czechoslovak military veterinarian, resistance fighter, and exiled politician. In 1992 he was posthumously promoted to the rank of General of the Army.
Biography[]
Ferjenčík was born in Polomka, Slovakia (at the time a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). He graduated from high school in Rožňava and the University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Brno, before serving in the military veterinary service. By the outbreak of World War II he was chief of the Slovak Army Veterinary Service with the rank of lieutenant colonel.[1] During the war he joined the Czechoslovakian resistance and participated in the Slovak National Uprising as chief of staff to Ján Golian.[citation needed]
On 4 August 1944, Ferjenčík was part of a delegation from the that flew to Moscow carrying detailed plans of their uprising against the Nazis. The papers were confiscated and he was held for a month before being released on 5 September and returning to Czechoslovakia.
After the war he was promoted to brigadier general.[1] He then served on the Board of Commissioners in the Third Czechoslovak Republic, first as Commissioner of Defence and later as Commissioner of the Interior.
Following the 1948 coup d'état, Ferjenčík emigrated to the United States. On arrival in New York he was picketed as responsible for the USSR's seizure of Czechoslovakia and immediately taken to Ellis Island as a suspected communist.[2] He was subsequently active in Czechoslovakian immigrant politics, becoming director of the .
Ferjenčík died in Denver, Colorado on 4 March 1988. In 1992 he was posthumously promoted to the rank of General of the Army.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b de Sola Pool, Ithiel (1955). Satellite Generals: A Study of Military Elites in the Soviet Sphere. Stanford University Press. p. 36. ISBN 9780804716000.
- ^ "DP General Held as Slovak Red" (PDF). The Naples Record. August 17, 1949. p. 5.
Further reading[]
- Blaško, Štefan (1954). Slovakia in Blood and Shackles: General Mikulas Ferjencik's part in the conquest of Slovakia by the Communists. New York.
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- Mikuláš Ferjenčík (Czech) in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
- 1904 births
- 1988 deaths
- People from Brezno District
- People from the Kingdom of Hungary
- Members of the Interim National Assembly of Czechoslovakia
- Male veterinarians
- Czechoslovak democracy activists
- Czechoslovak military personnel of World War II
- Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States
- Recipients of the Milan Rastislav Stefanik Order