Egy derékba tört vadászkarrier : Teleki Béla gróf vadászatai a két világháború között

Halász, Imre (2023) Egy derékba tört vadászkarrier : Teleki Béla gróf vadászatai a két világháború között. AGRÁRTÖRTÉNETI SZEMLE, 64 (1-4). pp. 181-204. ISSN 0002-1105

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Count Béla Teleki was born in 1896 to Tibor Teleki, a father who reared his son to become as passionate a hunter as he was. The son was ten when he was presented his first sporting gun to practise shooting birds and small rodents. At fifteen he got his first shotgun and appeared in hunting parties on his father’s side not only in Gyömrő, his home settlement in Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County near Budapest, but also on other family estates of his extended kinship. Already considered an adult at fifteen, he regularly joined the famous ‘partridge week’ in Tómegyer (today Palárikovo, Slovakia), a week-long partridge shooting on the hunting grounds of Count Lajos Károlyi. Starting in 1914, Teleki completed his studies at the Royal Academy of Agriculture in Mosonmagyaróvár then served in the front line in World War I. Returning from the war, he initially managed his father’s estate in Gyömrő then took over his mother’s estate in Zala County in 1932, where he farmed and had a modern palace built in Pölöske. He served as Zala County Lord Lieutenant between 1936 and 1944. Highly dedicated, he hunted on 1520 days between 1906 and 1944 with his game bag totalling 21,953 animals. 1937 was an outstanding year: the crown of the red deer he shot in Pölöske in 1935 was awarded 210.7 points at the international evaluation at the International Hunting Exhibition held in Berlin from 2 to 21 November 1937. In 1945 he first fled to Austria then to Paraguay with his family, where he died in 1969. He did not hunt again after 1945.

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