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The Commander of the Hungarian Defence Forces ( hu, Magyar Honvédség parancsnoka, lit=Hungarian Army Commander; formerly Chief of General Staff ( hu, Honvéd Vezérkar főnöke)) is the highest-ranking military officer in the Hungarian Defence Forces and is responsible for maintaining control over the service branches. He is responsible for development, organisation, and equipping, training and functioning of the first strategic echelon (stand-by forces) and the other strategic echelon (reserve). The Defence Forces Command coordinates the tasks of the armed forces of the Republic of Hungary, develops recommendations for the planning, organisation and supervision of the Ministry's military duties, and for the development of combat capability. Since 2007, the Hungarian Defence Forces is under a unified command structure. The Ministry of Defence maintains the political and civilian control of the military. On 1 January 2019, the General Staff and the were merged to create the Defence Forces Command. The current commander is .


List of officeholders


Royal Hungarian Army (1922−1945)


Hungarian People's Army (1945−1990)

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1946–1948 , -


Honvédség (1990−present)

The army is called ''Magyar Honvédség'' since the
end of communism in Hungary Communism, Communist rule in the People's Republic of Hungary came to an end in 1989 by a peaceful transition of power, peaceful transition to a democratic system. After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was suppressed by Soviet forces, Hungary ...
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See also

* Minister of Defence (Hungary)


References

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Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Cr ...