Harry Hill Bandholtz statue - Harry Hill Bandholtz statue

It has been 100 years now, thanks to him for preventing the deportation of our National Treasures.

The monument stands in the nearby Freedom Square of the US Embassy. Major General US Army Hallelujah Banholts was a representative of the joint military delegation in Hungary in 1919. Obviously, it has some useful in Hungary

A brave American general who used his riding wand to chase out Romanian soldiers from the National Museum in 1919. unfortunately, Hungarians know undeservedly little about their person and activities.

At the entrance of the US Embassy in Hungary, it is interesting that the statue wears a mask

We see a strict, thick-bearded general in a tight position, in a big plate cap, with the famous riding wand behind him in his hands. Equipped with such a wand, on October 5, 1919, he prevented Romanian soldiers from transporting the art treasures of the National Museum. The sculpture is the work of Miklós Ligeti in 1936. The original inscription read: "Harry Hill Bandholtz is the grateful Hungarian nation in glorious memory of the heroic American general, the noble champion of truth / 1919." Below this was a quote from Bandholtz's diary published in 1933 (on a small bronze plaque there is also on today's pedestal): "I simply carried out the instructions of my Government as I understood them as an officer and gentleman of the United States'. I have carried out his instructions as I have interpreted them as an officer and gentleman of the United States of America. ") Today's inscription on the back of the pedestal: 'On October 5, 1919, General Harry Hill Bandholtz, the head of the American military mission, prevented the transport of the National Museum / art treasures to Romania. The statue of General Bandholtz, the work of Miklós Ligeti, was inaugurated in 1936 and removed in 1949. It was re-established by the Budapest City Council in 1989. ' The restoration of the statue was made possible by the visit of US President George Bush to Budapest in July 1989. The statue of the general is 220cm high, i.e. on the same scale as the statue of Ronald Reagan at the other point in the square, only in contrast to it standing on a pedestal, making it more difficult for visitors to access.

Wikipedia: American General Harry Hill Bandholtz (Constantine, Michigan, December 18, 1864 - Constantine, Michigan, May 11, 1925), commander of the American military mission in Hungary after the First World War. On October 5, 1919, he prevented the occupying Romanian troops from looting the Hungarian National Museum.

The monument, in fact, is rather inconspicuous and nondescript. Located in a park near the monument to Soviet soldiers and in front of the American Embassy. In the evening, it was not highlighted, as, in principle, the whole square.