Headquarters:    Budapest

Lineage:
Constituted:	01.03.1940	as the Second Army
Activated:	10.04.1942
	09.02.1943	Relieved of command of combat units.
	17.02.1943	Placed in charge of all Hungarian occupation forces on the East Front.
Redesignated:	01.05.1943	On East Front as Hungarian Occupation Forces Command (H.O.F.C.)
Redesignated:	15.08.1943	On East Front as Second Army
Disbanded:	07.04.1944	[After being relieved by Hungarian Occupation Group on 1.04.1944.    The Headquarters Staff was transported back to Hungary and used for other purposes]
Reconstituted:	23.08.1944	From IX Corps
Discontinued:	13.11.1944	[Becomes Headquarters of the Inspector General of Honvéd Forces in Germany]

Commanding Officers:
01.03.1940–10.08.1943	LTG Gustáv Jány
10.08.1943–01.04.1944	LTG Géza Lakatos
[00.05.1944–23.08.1944]	– inactive; position not filled –
23.08.1944–16.10.1944	LTG Lajos Veress von Dalnoki
16.10.1944–13.11.1944	LTG Jenö Major

Attachments:
01.03.1940–10.04.1942	VKF (Inactive, Peace Time Garrisons)
10.04.1942–22.06.1942	Heeresgruppe Süd
22.06.1942–09.07.1942	Armeegruppe von Weichs (=2. Armee + Second Army), Heeresgruppe Süd
10.07.1942–12.02.1943	Heeresgruppe B
12.02.1943–01.05.1943	Heeresgruppe Süd
01.05.1943–15.08.1943	(as H.O.F.C.), Heeresgruppe Süd
15.08.1943–01.04.1944	Heeresgruppe Süd
01.04.1944–05.04.1944	Transport back to Hungary
[00.05.1944–23.08.1944]	– inactive –
28.08.1944–30.08.1944	VKF (Inactive, Peace Time Garrisons)
30.08.1944–17.09.1944	Heeresgruppe Südukraine
17.09.1944–22.09.1944	Armeegruppe Fretter-Pico (= 6. Armee + Second Army), Heeresgruppe Südukraine
23.09.1944–28.09.1944	Armeegruppe Fretter-Pico (= 6. Armee + Second Army), Heeresgruppe Süd
03.10.1944–18.10.1944	Armeegruppe Wöhler (= 8. Armee + Second Army), Heeresgruppe Süd
23.10.1944–13.11.1944	Heeresgruppe Süd
13.11.1944–17.11.1944	VKF (being deactivated)