Balogh de Manko Bük

Balogh v. Mankó Bükk "Stammwappen"

Balog v. Mankobück or Balog de Manko Bück in its present Germanized form, also known as (mankóbüki)[1] in its Hungarian form, is an Austro-Hungarian family,[2] which belongs to the historical Hungarian nobility,[1][2][3][4][5][6] and has its origins in Sopron/Ödenburg.[1]

The family name comes as a result of the genus Balog combined with the mankóbüki feudal family, landowners at the former village of Mankóbük in modern-day Hungary, now called Bük. Their origins date back to the beginning of the Habsburg rule of the Kingdom of Hungary and are documented in the area of Bük since 1552.[7]

Hungarian nobility, as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, ceased to exist after the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy that followed the Austrian defeat of World War One in 1918. The family members then became either Austrian or Hungarian citizens, since the family was established both in Vienna and Budapest, and the new independent states of German-Austria and Hungary were created. Nobility was legally abolisched in German-Austria in 1919 and then later in 1947 in communist ruled Hungary.

History

Genealogy Balogh de Mankóbük

The first written mention of the Manko Bük family is recorded in 1351 as "Monko de Byky"[8] and later in the person of "Johannes Manko de Byk"[9] in 1451. The published genealogical family tree of the "Balogh Mankóbüki" traced their roots back to the early 1600s, namely with the brothers Lörinez (1618) and János (1620), even though the jurist Gáspar Balogh de Mankóbük had been documented in present-day Bük back in 1556.[7]

Around 1800 they left Bük due to the military postings of the head of the family, captain Josef Balog de Mankó-Bük (1766 - 1842), who served during the Napoleonic Wars on the Austrian side. Their military life took them through Temeswar and Karlsburg (modern Romania) as well as Brünn or Olmütz (today Czech Republic). They settled in the German speaking part of the Austrian Empire.

Liber Armorum Hungariae. Budapest 1913

Captain Josef Balog de Mankó-Bük was stationed 1795 in Kőszeg/Güns, which then was the seat of the district administration, as lawyer of the Transdanubian District Board (Kőszegi Kerületi Táblanak),[1] which had been founded in 1724 and was responsible for nobles´s property, inheritance and other financial matters.[10] While most of his descendants took residence in Vienna until 1849, his oldest son, Oberleutnant Josef Balog v. Manko-Bük (born in 1801 in Temeswar and died in Fürstenfeld), also known as Josef v. Balog von Manko Bück, lived in Fürstenfeld (Styria)[11] during his active military career[12] as well as in Königsdorf.[13]

In 1849 the family split in an Austrian branch, who had previously established itself in Vienna, and an Hungarian one, which moved to Budapest and stayed within the Lands of Saint Stephen.The reason for this split is the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 which took place in Hungary, in which Rittmeister (Cavalry Captain) Karl Balog de Mánko-Bük (1808-1849) decided to fight on the Hungarian side against the Habsburg dinasty, while the rest of the family decided to stay in Vienna. Because of his death during the revolution and the fact that he had left his only child with his wife's family (Madách de Sztregova et Kelecsény) at her family castle in Hungary, his descendants would mainly live in Budapest and not return to Austria.

The family had a marked military character throughout generations, mainly serving in the Austrian Imperial Army,[14][15][16] and the subsequent Austro-Hungarian Army,[17] as well as a dedication towards the cultural scene and the affairs of state, primarily through judicial positions of legal or administrative nature in either governmental institutions (imperial and later k.u.k) or Hungarian Ministries.

During the Monarchy, German was used as the first official language, secondly mainly Hungarian, although Croatian and Czech were used at some point by those family members stationed in Fiume or Moravia respectively. French was later adopted as mother tongue by the branch that settled in France after World War II.

Coat of arms

The first published coat of arms is found in the volume "Der Adel von Ungarn samt den Nebenländern der St.Stephanskrone" (Nobility of Hungary and the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen) of the renowned German-speaking heraldic works "Siebmachers Großes Wappenbuch" of 1893, printed in Nürenberg. It shows a red dressed arm with three Ostrich Feathers in the fist and appears under the germanized name Balogh v. Mankó Bükk.

A later coat of arms was published in "Liber Armorum Hungariae" by the foreign minister of Austria-Hungary Count Gyula Andrássy in Budapest in 1913. This version is richer and more colourful, three Ostrich Feathers stand now on their own as well as on the crown at the top, the red dressed arm holds a sword in its fist instead of the feathers it held previously. Green, blue and yellow are used additionally, and the family name appears with the latin suffix "de" instead of the Germanic "von" as Balogh de Mankóbük.

In any case, both versions are good examples of Hungarian Heraldry of the Habsburg period, which are clearly recognizable in comparison to earlier periods such as the early medieval, ethnic ones or their later versions under notable Germanic influence.

Anton Balog de Manko-Bük

Genealogy of Balogh de Mankó Bük and their Austrian and Hungarian split (1849)

Born in Karlsburg/Alba Iulia (25. Juli 1805), then part of the historical Siebenbürgen region of the Austrian Empire and modern-day Romania, as son of captain Josef Balog de Mankó-Bük (1766 - 1842). He attended the Theresian Military Academy near Vienna, until 1817 and became Fähnrich or officer candidate 21. October 1825 and a Lieutenant at the Hungarian k.u.k regiment "Erzhog Albrecht" n.44 in 1830. After being promoted to Oberleutnant that same year he became Captain lietunant in 1834 and Hauptmann/Captain on 1. January 1836.[18] He was Adjutant of "his Excellency / Seiner Exzellenz" Feldmarschall-leutnant Baron Lauer.

He married Aloysia v. Widemann (Vienna 1816 - Klosterneuburg 1866),daughter of an Hauptmann-Auditor, with whom he had four children. The Festungskomandant Freiherr von Lauer and his wife Henriette Mainoni were the godfathers at the christnening of Anton's only male child, Joseph Heinrich Alexius Franciscus Aloysius Antonius Balog de Manko Bück, who was born 7. October 1837 in Olmütz. Prälat Anton Freiherr von Rolsberg was the baptist.

Anton (Hung. Antal) Balog de Manko-Bük died 7. October 1844 in Vienna.[19]

Aloysia Balog de Manko-Bück

Born in Vienna (31 October 1842) and died in Budapest (15 August 1876). She was the daughter of captain[20] Anton Balog de Manko-Bük (1805-1844) and spouse of the general-major Rudolf Freiherr Wagner von Wehrborn (Vienna 1815 - Radstadt 1897), who was a knight of the Military Order of Maria Theresia.[21] They married in Olmütz (Moravia) on the 21st of June 1869. The Baroness Irmgard Julinka Freiin Wagner von Wehrborn (Voralberg, 22 January 1929) and her daughter Princess Elisabeth of Lippe-Weissenfeld[22] (Munich, 28 July 1957), consort of the head of the House of Glücksburg and the House of Oldenburg, Cristoph, Prince of Schleswig Holstein, are among their direct descendants.

II.Carl Balog von Mankobück / Károly Balogh de Mankóbük

View of Alsósztregova Watercolour, painted by Károly Balogh
Carl Balog von Mankobück Jr., nephew of the Hungarian writer Imre Madách, with wife Margit Bérczy de Gyarmat

Born in Buda (11 June 1848) and died in Pécs (9 April 1920), Carl/Károly was a judge and the president of the Royal Court (Tabula Regia or Király Tábla in Hungarian) in Pécs.[23]

Castle Madách in Alsósztregova, today Slovakia.

He was the son of Karl Balog de Mánko-Bük (1808-1849), captain at the Imperial Dragoons cavalry Regiment "König Ludwig von Bayern" in the Austrian Imperial Army, and his wife Mária Madách de Sztregova et Kelecsény (1816-1849), daughter of an imperial and royal chamberlain and landowner.

Biedermeier interior of Imre Mádach home in Pest, Painted by Károly Balogh

His father had been wounded in Transylvania during a major battle in Temeswar, fighting in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, so his mother went to assist him. Károly became an orphan at barely the age of one when both his parents were murdered by armed Romanian peasants in the summer of 1849, during their journey back home. At the time of the tragedy he had been left behind with his grandmother at the Madách castle in Alsósztregova in present-day Slovakia.

He was raised by his mothers family, thus becoming the first of the Hungarian family line since the rest of his relatives had previously settled down in Vienna. His uncle, the famous writer Imre Madách, took him in his care and raised him together with his own son, Aladár, at the Madách family castle. Traits from that common family history can still be found today in the Slovak National Museum since the department of Hungarian Culture in Slovakia is based both in Bratislava and in the Madách Castle.

He studied law in Bratislava and worked for the Ministry of Justice, eventually becoming president of the Royal Court in Pécs. He had artistic pursuits in his spare time, mostly through painting and poetry.While he served in the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, he captured the essence of war in Sarajevo, through a number of paintings and drawings, which were published under the name of: Krieg-Bilder-Skizzen aus dem Bosnisch-Herzegovinischen Occupations-Feldzug, 1878 von der Marschlinie Brod, Sarajevo, Visegrad bis an den Limm in Wien (1879).[24]

He married Margaret Bérczy de Gyarmat, daughter of the notorious poet and editor Károly Bérczy de Gyarmat, in Budapest (12 October 1875). In 1912, at the age of 64, he wrote his memoirs[25] "Gyermekkorom emlékei" or "Memories of childhood".He illustrated tales and children´s books of the Hungarian novelist Kálmán Mikszáth de Kiscsoltó as well.

III. Károly Balogh de Mankóbük

One of the Hungarian published works of Károly Balogh III.

Born in Budapest (23 June 1879) and died in Balassagyarmat (24 April 1944). He was the eldest son of Carl/Károly Balogh de Mankóbük and Margaret Bérczy and was married to Alise Csernyus de Kökeszi.

He was a judge in the Szecseny and Balassagyarmat area from 1903 to 1907. He then became ministerial draftsman at the maritime authority of the Governorate of Fiume (modern Croatia), back then an autonomous entity under jurisdiction of Austria-Hungary known as "Corpus separatum", from 1907 to 1911. He then became the Fiume ministerial regency draftsman, assistant secretary and then secretary (1911-1915) until he had to serve in the Austro-Hungarian Army at a combat zone due to World War One (1915-1918) .

He went into hiding after the collapse of the Kingdom of Hungary (1918-1919) and later took part in the liquidation of the Fiume governorship (1919-1920).

He settled down in Pécs (1923-1934) where he was interim head of the University of Pécs Elisabeth library (1927-1930). He then became president of the Translation Department (had Ministerial Adviser rank from 1920-1943) at the hungarian Ministry of Interior or Belügyminisztérium.

He was a member of the prestigious Kisfaludy Society since 1942, specialized in the cultural history of ancient Rome and medieval German poetry.[23]

Aladár Balog von Mankobükk/Aladár Balogh de Mankóbük

Balog v. Mankobükk (Hussaren-Regiment Nr. 11) 1918 .

Aladár was born the 28. December 1880 in Budapest and became a cadette at the 11.Husaren-Regiment,[26] in 1898. By 1906 he was already Oberleutnant,[27] within the same regiment, and Rittmeister by 1914,[28] under the command of the Prince of the Kingdom of Bulgaria, Kyrill von Bulgarien Fürst von Preslaw and the Heir apparent to the Bulgarian throne, Major Boris Kronpriz von Bulgarien Fürst von Tirnowo, until 1918.

He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army throughout the entire First World War and before, during the Balkan Wars, in 1912/1913. By 1918, the end of the War and the dissolution of his regiment, he had been distinguished with both bronze and silver Military Merit Medals among other recognitions.[29]

Dr. Pál Balogh de Mankóbük

Dr.Pál (i.e. Paul) was born in Gödöllő (8 August 1889).

He obtained his degree in political science in Budapest and joined the financial clerk from 1924 to 1934. In 1934 he joined the Ministry of Defence, where he addressed issues such as care for war orphans, child protection and social security.

In 1945 he transferred to the Ministry of Social Welfare where he was head of the military care management department and 1946 became deputy head of the same department.

At the same time he actively participated in the resistance movement known as the Magyar Közösség, a secret organization operating along the lines of the Freemason movement, but with a strong Hungarian nationalist character. Their goal was to get their members into influential positions in the state administration and economical sphere.

He worked at the Ministry until his retirement in 1949. In the summer of 1951 the leadership of the then communist Hungarian People's Republic decided to deport the so-called "undesired persons" (former high-ranking civil servants, soldiers, landowners) from Budapest.

Dr.Pál and his family had their home expropriated and were deported to the village of Gyulaháza, which they could only leave with police permission, under the accusation of "kulak" or "enemy of democracy".[30]

Balogh - RFID Leader since 1978

The BALOGH GROUP has its headquarters in Paris and is the French leader company in the development and manufacturing of contactless identification systems, offering the most advanced RFID technologies in the industry.

It was founded in 1958 by Paul and Claire Balogh de Manko-Bük in Paris, who had left Hungary after the Second World War and settled in France, starting out manufacturing Inductive Proximity Sensors, which then lead to the development of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in 1978. Since then the BALOGH Group has expanded globally with the creation of BALOGH USA in 1988 and the creation of BALOGH INTERNATIONAL in 1990.[31]

Nowadays it has three research and development facilities, one in Paris, one in Toulouse (France) and one in Detroit, Michigan (USA). All three also serve as production facilities, in addition to the one in Normandy.

The company operates globally, mainly in Europe and the United States, having applications in a variety of industries, such as Automotive, Food Processing, Pharmaceutical, Transportation, Railways or Aircraft.

The current CEO, Etienne Balogh de Manko-Bük, joined 1987 and became president in 1994. He holds a business and marketing degree from the IDRAC Ecole supérieure de commerce and HEC Management.

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