Six Years in the Spirit of Austrian–Hungarian Cooperation
Szöveg: honvedelem.hu | 2017. december 19. 9:00The cooperation is continuous between the Austrian National Defence Academy and the HDF Military Augmentation, Preparation and Training Command (HDF MAPTC). On this occasion, Dr. Walther Wintschalek, Head of the Finnish Language Department of the Language Institute of the Academy has already paid his seventh visit to the HDF MAPTC Department for Doctrinal and Field Manual Development.
This year Dr. Wintschalek presented some publications of the academy and the military encyclopedia of the Austrian armed forces to Lt.-Col. Csaba László Boros, a senior officer of the department representing this special field.
Dr. Wintschalek met with Col. Dr. habil. Zoltán Jobbágy, Vice-Dean for Academic and International Affairs, National University of Public Service (NUPS) Faculty of Military Sciences and Officer Training, and with Dr. Gabriella Kiss PhD, Head of the Foreign Language Training Centre, with whom he discussed the possibilities of mutual exchange of native language teachers. He also conducted discussions with Dr. Mária Wéber, a teacher of the NUPS Foreign Language Training Centre, with whom they had collectively developed the German–Hungarian, Hungarian–German military terminology dictionary Militärwörterbuch between 2013 and 2015.
Following the meeting, HDF MAPTC Commander Brig.-Gen. Attila Takács praised the excellent performance of the department in 2017, which has contributed to the modernization of the field manuals of the Hungarian Defence Forces. In the general’s opinion, the Department for Doctrinal and Field Manual Development represents important values in international professional communication too, which is indispensable in the system of military alliance, as the Hungarian Defence Forces can only meet the challenges of the age if they perform their everyday tasks by modern and professionally well-founded field manuals, which also facilitate international cooperation.
