Alfréd Adda

After finishing his schooling, Alfréd Adda started a military career. He gradauted from the Maria Theresa Military Academy in Vienna in 1908 and became a lieutenant. After fifty-one months of battlefield service in World War I, he was promoted to captain in 1916.

Twelve years later, he attended the Olympic Games in Amsterdam. In the individual competition of the three-day event, he reached 15th place riding his horse Alvezér. After the Olympics Adda won the national championship title in the three-day event. Between the two world wars he was the president of the Royal Hungarian Military Polo League.

In 1935 he graduated from the riding and driving teacher training school and served on the Ministry of Defense’s Horse Replacement Inspectorate. During the Second World War he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of Merit for his excellent work in the field of repatriation of the army and the development of national horse breeding. On May 9, 1945, he was captured by the Soviets on Austrian territory, from which he was only released on September 11, 1948, and shortly afterwards served on the Financial Group Command of the Ministry of Defense.

He left Hungary in 1956 and settled in Austria, but he did not stay there for long, moving to Italy. He lived in Bolzano until his death.