Ferenc Farkas de Kisbarnak: Difference between revisions

While in the displaced persons camp, he founded the Pál Teleki Scout Association, which in 1948 was renamed the Hungarian Scout Association in Exile, and after the fall of the [[Iron Curtain]], the [[Külföldi Magyar Cserkészszövetség|Hungarian Scout Association Abroad]].<ref name="undaunted"/>{{rp|270}}<ref>{{cite web  | title = Geschichte  |author= Daniel Kutasi  | url= http://www.kutasi.eu/de/page11677fb4d92.html  |language = German  | accessdate = 2008-12-17 }} </ref> He was named Training Camp Chief and later Chief Commissioner ([[Hungarian language|Hungarian]]: ''Bodnar Gabor'').  He also led adult leader training for Hungarian Scout leaders in exile in several locations within Germany during the late 1940s, and later at numerous locations abroad. He recommended [[Béla H. Bánáthy]], a Hungarian Scout leader and one of his former officers with whom he had maintained a relationship, for a position as a Hungarian language instructor at the [[U.S. government]]'s new [[Defense Language Institute|Army Language School]]. During 1952, Farkas visited the United States and met with adult leaders at a training camp for Hungarian Scouts in Exile held in Buffalo, New York.<ref name=hsaa/> He remained the Hungarian Chief Scout until his death in 1980.