Béla Hadik

Count Béla Hadik von Futak (January 31, 1905 – February 16, 1971) Among his siblings was Countess Amalia Andrea Johanna Alexandra (who married Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg), Countess Margaret Johanna Maria Gabriella Rafaella Eva Alexandra (who married Count Viktor Wengersky, Baron of Ungerschütz) and Count Anthony Mary Martin Max (who married Edit Gschwindt de Győr). Through his father, he was a great-great-grandson of András Hadik de Futak, famous for capturing the Prussian capital Berlin during the Seven Years' War. His uncle, Count Alexander Hadik, was rumored to have been engaged to Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt, the widow of Cornelius Vanderbilt II (his eventual wife's maternal grandparents), in 1908, but the marriage never happened.

He graduated from the Agricultural University of Magyarovar. In Chester, he founded the Futaki Kennels and bred Vizsla pointers.

Personal life On April 18, 1931, Hadik married Countess Alice Széchényi (1911–1974). She was the daughter of Count László Széchenyi, the former Hungarian Minister to the U.S., and his American born-wife, Countess Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi (daughter of Alice Claypoole Gwynne and Cornelius Vanderbilt II), who visited Hungary almost every summer with their five daughters. The wedding took place at St. Matthew's Church in Washington, D.C. and was officiated by the Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni Biondi, the Apostolic Delegate to the United States (who later became a Cardinal in 1933), followed by a reception at the Hungarian Legation. As a wedding gift to Alice, his mother sent a "diamond necklace with earrings to match, which had been the gift of the Empress, Queen Maria Theresa, to an ancestor of the bride and bridegroom." Alice's younger sister later married, and divorced, Christopher Finch-Hatton, 15th Earl of Winchilsea in 1935. In 1946, he gave away Alice's youngest sister at her wedding to Alexander zu Eltz. Together, they were the parents of:

Count László Hadik (1932–1973), who married Countess Vita Stachwitz in 1956. He died in a plane crash in 1973. Count János Béla Hadik (1933–2004), who married Edith Genevieve Gaillet in 1962. He later married Kirsten Scheuer.

In New Hampshire, his wife was instrumental the founding of, the now defunct, White Pines College.

After a long illness, Hadik died on February 16, 1971, in Camden, South Carolina. He was buried at Seregélyes in Hungary. His wife died three years later in Lisbon.