Laszlo Onczay

* Rudnok, June 5, 1886 – † Budapest, February 8, 1964 / forestry engineer ; ; He received his forestry engineering degree in 1912 from the Mining and Forestry Academy in Selmecbánya. At the beginning of his career, he worked in Liptóújvár, then in Fenyőháza. In 1919, he was the head of the forestry of the Füzérradvány estate, and from 1939, he was the central director of the estate. He had the so-called Hegyközi railway built, connecting Füzér with Sátoraljaújhely, with which he connected the wood production of unexplored forests to consumption and enabled the mining of nearby perlite deposits. With the industrial estate established in Pálháza and the modernization of the stoneware factory in Hollóháza, he developed the estate into one of the model farms in the country. He raised the need to establish an independent Ministry of Forestry, citing the fact that a quarter of the country's territory was forest and that the Ministry of Agriculture, under whose control the forests were also, was unable to fully perform the diverse tasks of forestry. Several of his studies were published in the professional journal Magyar Erdőgazda published in Sátoraljaújhely, which he edited for several years from 1923.