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Gálicz János

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János Gálicz
Photo of a Soviet officer, presumably Gálicz
Born1890
Tótkomlós, Békés County, Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, Austria-Hungary)
Died20 October 1939
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Cause of deathExecution
NationalityHungarian (1914–????)
Soviet (1922–1939)
Known forHis actions during the Spanish Civil War


János Gálicz or General Gal was a Hungarian-Soviet brigade commander who fought in the Spanish and Russian Civil Wars, and World War I. Gálicz gained infamy for his actions in Spain, often throwing outnumbered, outgunned, and inexperienced troops at heavily fortified enemy positions, against the advice of his subordinates. Ernest Hemingway wrote that the conditions in his sector were "deplorable" and that "he should have been shot." Hemingway's wish was granted, as in 1939, Gálicz was tried by a people's court and sentenced to death in Moscow.