CONSIDERAȚII ȘI APRECIERI ASUPRA CALITĂȚILOR ORGANIZATORICE ȘI DE COMANDĂ ALE GENERALULUI DĂNILĂ PAPP EFECTUATE DE SUPERIORII SĂI IERARHICI ÎN PERIOADA 1919–1933

Abstract

In the following article, we would like to bring to your attention the results of the research we undertook on the command and organization activity that General D. Papp undertook, both in the service of the Governing Council, especially in the command and organization structure called the Command General Territorial Sibiu (December 1918-April 1919), as well as in the Army of Great Romania in the period April 1918-April 1930. We note that Dănilă Papp was a senior officer and general with military training at the Teresian Military Academy in Wienner-Neustadt and civilian as a graduate of the Faculty of Engineering specializing in Roads, bridges, constructions, fortifications at the Polytechnic in the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was coopted into the structure of the General Territorial Command of Sibiu, serving in the Department of the Army and Public Safety under the coordination of the Romanian politician Ștefan Cicio-Pop and under the orders of General Ioan Boeriu. Organizer of the 16th and 18th divisions formed from Transylvanians, and as commander of the 18th Infantry Division from Sibiu, he participated in the Campaign of the Romanian Army on the Tisza and in Hungary in 1919. He participated as commander general of the 18th Sibiu Infantry Division at the Coronation Celebrations of Their Royal Majesties King Ferdinand and Queen Maria of Great Romania in Alba Iulia and Bucharest between October 15-17, 1922, festivities during which he led the Ardelean Division’s parade. From 1923 he was appointed to the command of the 1st Territorial Army Corps from Craiova, and from April 1, 1924 until April 1, 1930, when he was transferred to the reserve, he was in command of the 6th Territorial Army Corps from Cluj.During the period in which he served the Romanian state and the Royal House of Romania as the commanding officer of the Cluj Army Corps, he distinguished himself in the technical-organizational staff that took care of the smooth running of the Avram Iancu Centenary Celebrations, both in the Apuseni Mountains area and in Cluj during August-September 1924. In the following study, we present the assessments that the senior officers in the rank of General D. Papp made, both on his activity of organization and command, as well as in terms of his qualities and the excellent training that he always showed, referring -us, especially the assessments made by generals Artur Văitoianu, Ioan Boeriu, Ștefan Holban, Henri Cihoski, Nicolae Petala, Gheorghe Mărdărescu, Alexandru Hanzu, Ioan Prodan. For his high merits in the service of the state of Romania, he was decorated with the Order of the Coroana României in the rank of Commander, then with the same Order in the rank of Grand Officer, with the Order of the Steaua României in the rank of Grand Officer,The Victory Medal of the Great War for Civilization (1916-1921), and later with the Order of Ferdinand I in the rank of Grand Officer, and then in the rank of Grand Cross, respectively with the Order of Faithful Service in the rank of Grand Officer.