Mikuláš Ferjenčík

Brigadier General Dr. Mikuláš Ferjenčík (6 December 1904 – 4 March 1988) was a Slovak military veterinarian, resistance fighter and exiled politician of Czechoslovakia. In 1992 he was posthumously promoted to the rank of General of the Army.

Biography Ferjenčík was born in Polomka, Slovakia (at the time a part of Austria-Hungary). He graduated from high school in Rožňava and the University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Brno, before serving in the military veterinary service. By the outbreak of World War II he was chief of the Slovak Army Veterinary Service with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He then served on the Board of Commissioners in the Third Czechoslovak Republic, first as Commissioner of Defence and later as Commissioner of the Interior.

Following the 1948 coup d'état, Ferjenčík emigrated to the United States. On arrival in New York he was picketed as responsible for the Soviet Union's seizure of Czechoslovakia and immediately taken to Ellis Island as a suspected communist. He was subsequently active in Czechoslovak immigrant politics, becoming director of the Czechoslovak National Council of America.

Ferjenčík died in Littleton, Colorado on 4 March 1988. In 1992 he was posthumously promoted to the rank of General of the Army.