Hefty Gyula Andor

* Bratislava, February 14, 1888 – † Budapest, December 3, 1957 / teacher, tourist, specialist writer ; ; He completed his secondary school studies in his hometown. He obtained a history teaching diploma from the Budapest University of Science and Technology. From 1911 until the outbreak of World War II, he lived in Késmárk. Between 1911 and 1919, he was a history teacher at the Késmárk Commercial School. He was an active tourist and mountaineer, and a great fan of winter sports. He opened new climbing routes on many difficult rock faces, and in 1916 he achieved excellent results by climbing the NW face of Kriván. He is credited with the first winter ascents of several Tatra peaks. He also organized ski competitions in the Tatra Mountains, contributed to the compilation of the first Hungarian ski manual (1912) and the guide to rock climbing schools around the capital (1913), and was one of the main collaborators of the 3-volume High Tatras travel guide (1914). ; He was a contributor to the journal Turistaság és Alpinizmus, and then co-editor. In November 1918, he was one of the advocates of the establishment of the Spiš Republic. Therefore, in December 1918 – when the Czech army appeared in Késmárk – he was arrested and held in the Illava prison for a while. Since he refused to take the oath of allegiance, he could no longer be a teacher at the commercial school. He did not want his family to be disadvantaged because of his political stance, so he moved to the Tatra Mountains without his family. During his work, he traveled a lot to Poland and Hungary, which the Czechoslovak authorities considered as collaboration with the enemy and therefore he was imprisoned for a second time, this time in Bratislava. As a Freemason, he often spoke out against the Nazi threat. In 1938, he underwent a difficult operation (perforated appendicitis), after which he learned that they wanted to imprison him for a third time for his anti-Nazi statements. He did not wait for this, he left for Budapest via Košice - he intended to stay for a month, but he never returned. Until the outbreak of World War II, he worked as a promoter of Transylvania in Marosvásárhely, then moved to Budapest. ; ; His main works: ; Vezérfonal az iskolai síoktatáshoz, 1918, ; Gerlsdorf, 1932, ; Die Kesmarker Holzkirche (about the wooden church in Kesmárk), 1933.