Mihály Cseszneky de Milvány

The native form of this personal name is cseszneki és milványi gróf Cseszneky Mihály Mátyás. This article uses the Western name order.

Count Mihály Mátyás Cseszneky de Milvány et Csesznek (1910–1975) was a Hungarian industrialist and nobleman, member of the House of Cseszneky, Count of Csesznek, Wildgrave of Bakony, and nominal Grand Voivode of Macedonia.

Count Mihály Cseszneky was the son of Ferenc Cseszneky and Mária Handzsák. His father was an inventor and impoverished aristocrat. His mother was the only daughter and heir of a wealthy grain merchant with extended commercial links throughout Austria-Hungary and the Balkans. After World War I, most of their properties were confiscated by the Serbian government.

In the 1930s, Count Cseszneky played an important role in the restoration of the mill industry of Hungary. In September 1943, after the forced abdication of his brother Count Gyula Cseszneky de Milvány et Csesznek, he was proclaimed Grand Voivode of Macedonia, but he did not respond to the offer. After World War II his properties were confiscated by the Hungarian and Yugoslav Communist regimes. As an aristocrat and prominent supporter of the Civic Democratic Party, he was labelled a class enemy and was deported to a re-education camp, along with his wife and young children. As a political prisoner, Count Mihály Cseszneky spent several years in jail and forced labour camps in Komló and Sztálinváros. He died in 1975.

Count Mihály married a Hungarian noble lady, Ilona Király-Gyenge de Szeged et Felsőkistelek, with whom he had four children, among them the current head of the family Count László Cseszneky de Milvány et Csesznek, whose heir apparent is Count Miklós Cseszneky de Milvány et Csesznek.

References

• Kalimniou, Dean: - Alkiviadis Diammandi di Samarina (in Neos Kosmos English Edition, Melbourne, 2006)
• Rallo, Michele: I “Regni-meteora” nell’Europa Orientale durante le guerre mondiali (“Storia del Novecento”, anno V, n. 89, settembre 2008)

External links

• Pequeños países olvidados de la Segunda Guerra Mundial
• Hungarian aristocracy
• ΠΡΙΓΚΗΠΑΤΟ ΠΙΝΔΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑΣ 1941-1944
• Cseszneky de Milvány et Csesznek family
• Cseszneky de Milvány et Csesznek family tree

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Name	Mihaly Cseszneky De Milvany
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Date of birth	1910
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Date of death	1975
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