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Szecheny Pasha is commemorated at the head of his tomb24 September 2019 Tuesday

Celebrating the 305th anniversary of its establishment, our organization commemorated Count Odech Szecheny Pasha, who had worked at the Istanbul Fire Brigade for 48 years, at the 97th anniversary of his death at a ceremony held at his tomb in Feriköy.

On the 97th anniversary of the death of Count Odön SZECHENY, who served in the Istanbul Fire Department for 48 years, our organization celebrating the 305th anniversary of its establishment, our head of the Department of Fire Brigade Remzi ALBAYRAK, Hungarian Ambassador Viktor Matis, and Hungarian Culture Attache Gabor Fodor and firefighters. commemorated

Who is Count Odön SZECHENY?

He is one of the leaders of the Fire Brigade, which has successfully extinguished the biggest fire of the 19th century in Budapest. Szecheny, one of the outstanding executives of the Fire Department, who has served 52 years for the Fire Service for 4 years in Budapest and 48 years in Istanbul, sheds light on our day with its knowledge and experience. Odön Szecheny, the younger son of Count Istvan Szecheny, who was described as a great Hungarian patriot, was born on December 14, 1839 in Bratislava.

Szecheny wrote the first Hungarian Fire Department Occupational Book. This work, entitled "General experience during fire fighting", was published in 1864. Szecheny supported the idea of establishing the National Fire Brigade, and in 1871, the union elected him president.

Odon Szecheny, who successfully managed the biggest fire event of the age in Budapest with the fire crew, was heard from the capital. Szecheny came to Istanbul in 1871 upon the invitation of Sultan Abdulaziz and started to establish and train the military fire brigade. He planned to take over the management of the fire brigade in Budapest after returning home, thinking it would take a year to complete it. However, in 1877, when Sultan Abdülhamit II was given the rank of Pashalik, he resigned from his post in Hungary and came to Istanbul and remained the director of the Istanbul Fire Brigade until his death (March 23, 1922).