Gusztáv Jány

Hungarian military officer

World War I
World War II
• First Battle of Voronezh
• Battle of Stalingrad
• Second Battle of Voronezh

Awards

Order of Merit of the Kingdom of Hungary Grand Cross on war ribbon with swords
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Colonel General Vitéz^[a] Gusztáv Jány (born Gusztáv Hautzinger; 21 October 1883 in Rajka, Kingdom of Hungary – 26 November 1947 in Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian officer during World War II who commanded the Hungarian Second Army at the Battle of Stalingrad. After the war, he was found guilty of war crimes and executed by firing squad. He was posthumously exonerated in 1993 by the Supreme Court of Hungary.^[1]

Awards and decorations

1st row	Order of Merit of the Kingdom of Hungary Grand Cross on war ribbon with swords	Order of Merit of the Kingdom of Hungary Grand Cross	Golden Military Merit Medal on military peacetime ribbon	Order of Merit of the Kingdom of Hungary Commander's Cross with Star
2nd row	Order of Merit of the Kingdom of Hungary Officer's Cross	Military Merit Cross 3rd Class with war decoration and swords	Military Merit Cross 3rd Class with war decoration and swords	Silver Military Merit Medal on war ribbon with swords
3rd row	Silver Military Merit Medal on war ribbon with swords	Bronze Military Merit Medal on war ribbon with swords	Fire Cross 2nd class with wreath	National Defence Cross
4th row	Hungarian World War I Commemorative Medal	Long Service Crosses for Officers 1st class	Transylvania Commemorative Medal	1908 Jubilee Cross
5th row	Mobilization Cross 1912/13	Iron Cross 2nd Class (1939–1945)	Order of the Crown of Italy Knight Grand Cross	Order of the German Eagle with star
6th row	Order of the Crown of Italy Commander's Cross	Iron Cross 2nd Class (1914, with 1939 clasp)	Gallipoli Star	War Commemorative Medal (Austria)
Neck Badge	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Badge	Badge of the Order of Vitéz

The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded March 31, 1943.

Notes

^ "Vitéz" is a title given to members of the Hungarian Knightly Order of Vitéz.

References

^ "A Jány-per a bíróságon".

Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000) [1986]. Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile [The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches] (in German). Friedberg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 978-3-7909-0284-6.
Kovács, Attila Ótott (2006). Die ungarischen Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes. Ranis: Scherzers Militaer-Verl. ISBN 978-3-938845-02-8.

Military offices
Preceded by none	Commander of the Hungarian Second Army 1 March 1940 – 5 August 1943	Succeeded by Lieutenant-General Géza Lakatos

Battle of Stalingrad

Operations

Nazi Germany	Donnerschlag Winter Storm
Soviet Union	Uranus Little Saturn Koltso

Formations

Army groups
and fronts

	B Centre Don
	Don Southwestern Stalingrad Voronezh

Armies

Axis	German 4th Panzer German 6th Hungarian 2nd Italian 8th Romanian 3rd and 4th
	1st Guards 2nd Guards 3rd Guards 21st 51st 62nd 64th 65th

Corps

XIV Panzer
XXXX Panzer
XXXXVIII Panzer
IV
VIII
XI
LI
8th Air

Tank	1st 4th 13th 16th 24th 26th
others	4th Mechanised 3rd Guards Cavalry 4th Cavalry 8th Cavalry

Divisions

Panzer	6th 14th 16th 17th 22nd 24th
Infantry	3rd Motorised 29th Motorised 60th Motorised 5th 44th 71st 76th 79th 94th 100th 113th 295th 297th 305th 371st 376th 384th 389th
others	9th Flak

Guards Rifle	13th 15th 33rd 35th 36th 37th 39th
Rifle	38th 45th 62nd 64th 91st 93rd 95th 112th 138th 157th 169th 173rd 181st 193rd 196th 204th 214th 221st 248th 284th 302nd 308th 422nd
others	60th Cavalry 81st Cavalry

Notable participants

Nazi Germany	Adolf Hitler Alexander Edler von Daniels Hermann Göring Hermann Hoth Hans-Valentin Hube Erich von Manstein Friedrich Paulus Wolfram von Richthofen Arthur Schmidt Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach Karl Strecker
Romania	Constantin Constantinescu-Claps Petre Dumitrescu Mihail Lascăr
Other Axis members	Viktor Pavičić (Croatia) Italo Gariboldi (Italy) Gusztáv Jány (Hungary)
Soviet Union	Joseph Stalin Hazi Aslanov Vasily Badanov Vasily Chuikov Nikolay Dyatlenko Sasha Filippov Filipp Golikov Vasily Gordov Vasily Grossman Nikita Khrushchev Nikolay Krylov Dmitry Lelyushenko Rodion Malinovsky Kirill Moskalenko Yakov Pavlov Alexander Rodimtsev Konstantin Rokossovsky Alexander Shcherbakov Semyon Timoshenko Aleksandr Vasilevsky Nikolay Voronov Erich Weinert Andrei Yeremenko Vasily Zaitsev Aleksey Zhadov Georgy Zhukov

Significant locations
Barmaley Fountain Barrikady Factory Grain Elevator Gumrak Kalach Mamayev Kurgan Pavlov's House Pitomnik Airfield Red October Steel Factory River Don River Volga Tatsinskaya Airfield Tsaritsa Gorge Tractor Plant