Count Andrá ssy is one of the main fighters for Hungary's independence from the Habsburgs. He was sentenced in absentia by the Austrian authorities to death by hanging and in 1851 was symbolically executed. Under an amnesty in 1857, with the help of his mother, he returned to Hungary and took an oath of allegiance to Emperor Franz Joseph I. After the country was transformed into a dual monarchy, he held important positions in Hungary. A monument to the work of Gyö rgy Hall was erected on December 2.→