Generalul Dănilă Papp la conducerea Diviziei 18 Infanterie din Transilvania. Contribuţii la cunoașterea activităţii organizatorice și de comandă (1919–1922)
General Dănilă Papp at the head of the 18th Infantry Division in Transylvania. Contributions to the Knowledge of Organizational and Command Activity (1919–1922)

Summary/Abstract: The study that we bring to your attention aims to recover in historiographical terms the organizational and command activity that this senior Romanian official, General Dănilă Papp, former senior officer in the Austro Hungarian army and commander of the Papp Dandar Brigade on the Bucovina front, had – starting from December 2, 1918 in the service of the Governing Council of Transylvania. He was the commander of the VI–VII Organization Sections within the Sibiu General Territorial Command, a former command and organization structure subordinated to the Army and Public Security Resort of the Transylvanian Board of Directors. The author shared with the Romanian generals Ioan Boeriu and Gheorghe Domășneanu the document “Principles for military organization in Transylvania, Banat and Hungary”, which he submitted to the approval of the Ministry of War in Bucharest and which was approved by King Ferdinand I on January 25, 1919. Our study also aims to present the activity of General D. Papp in the Romanian Troops Command in Transylvania since April 2, 1919, when the General Headquarters of the Romanian Army invested him as commander of the 18th Infantry Division, a large strategic unit of fight from Transylvanians who had their headquarters in Sibiu. He was the commander of this great fighting unit that operated in the offensive campaign on the Tisza during May August 1919, he asserted himself in the maneuvering exercises carried out in Bessarabia and Transylvania, respectively he participated in the middle of October 1922 in the coronation of the sovereigns of Romania the Great King. Ferdinand I and Queen Maria at the head of the General Staff of the 90th Sibiu Infantry Regiment, 91st Alba Iulia Infantry Regiment and the 6th Pioneer Genius Battalion from Alba Iulia. He was part of the series of Coronation generals, decorated by the Romanian sovereign Ferdinand I and promoted to the rank of major general. He was invested in the Command of the 1st Territorial Army Corps in Craiova since April 1923.

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