Hungarian Socialist Medal Printed Sources

[gjw]

Hey all, is there any books or published material on medals of the HPR?

 

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

 

Stay well my friends 

 

Greg

[steveBobby]

Hi Greg！

So far, I have not found a better information book describing the orders and medals of the Hungarian socialist period. Most of the books describe orders and medals from the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Horthy regime. These are two posters published during the socialist period of Hungary that I saw during the process of collecting information. They may be helpful to you.

If I were to recommend it, I would choose this book, in Hungarian it is called “Nagy magyar kitüntetéskönyv”，It systematically describes the rewards of Hungarian socialism from the time of President Tildy to the time of Kadar. But he doesn't have an English version, only a Hungarian version. And it will not involve version changes of a single medal throughout the process.

Hope this information is helpful to you!

Yours

Steve

 

[Gordon Craig]

Greg,

The book listed above is the best one in print for medals that were officially issued by Hungary during the HUPR period.  This book does become available from time to time for sale.

Regards,

Gordon

[speedytop]

This book is in my collection, with a summary in Russian, French, English and German.

 

HPR 1979

 

Uwe

[gjw]

Hello all, that's so much!  That's the kind of info I was looking for.  Very much appreciated!

 

Is the poster that Steve posted the correct order of precedence?

 

I'm also looking for the correct order of precedence.

 

Many thanks again!!

 

Stay well my friends 

 

Greg

[Farkas]

Hi Greg,

there is a really informative site via the link below, includes the order of precedence… explains changes in recent times also.

 

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/hu-decorations.htm

 

includes this…

 

Cheers

tony 🍻

 

 

 

 

[Gordon Craig]

Tony,

Interesting post.  I've added it to my reference library.

 

gjw,

Another book of interest is;

KERESZT, EREM, CSILLAG - Kitunretesek a magyar tortenelemben.  There is one page of English in the back of this book that reads as follow. "CROSS, MEDAL AND STAR; Orders and Decorations in Hungarian History.

In the album Hungarian state decorations, the signs of recognition are introduced to date, (the book was publish in 2002) in chronological order.  It also provides a selection of foreign decorations related to Hungary or awarded to Hungarians. 

This just the first paragraph.  It goes on to explain, broadly, the pictures in the text.

There is one more book in my library that I can not put my hands on at the moment but I'll let you know the name when I find it.  This particular book covers the decorations and awards used in Hungary for a two year period between the time the communist regime ended and a new set of decorations and awards were designed and introduced by the new government in Hungary.

Regards,

Gordon