Andr%C3%A1s Hadik


Count Andrs Hadik de Futak was a Hungarian nobleman and Field Marshal of the Habsburg Army. He was Governor of Galicia and Lodomeria from January 1774 to June 1774, and the father of Karl Joseph Hadik von Futak. He is famous for capturing the Prussian capital Berlin during the Seven Years War.

Andrs Hadik, son of a lesser noble family, was born on October 16, 1710 in Csallkz or in Kszeg, Kingdom of Hungary . He had Hungarian, Luxembourgian and Slovak ancestors. According to another source, he was of Hungarian ethnic origin, but the name Hadik is a diminutive from the Slovak appellative had , the family was thus of Slovak extraction. Alternative theories also suggest his Tartar or Cherkess ancestry.

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