became an educational institution of the level dreamed up by the initiators of the foundation and the legislators of 1808 pursuant to Act XXIII of 1897, approved by the Monarch. The Act required the Academy to launch real military higher education in line with the Wiener Neustadt model. Under the same Act, the operation of a military secondary school in Sopron, and military cadet schools in Pécs and Nagyvárad (Oradea) began, as institutes of military secondary education. The commandant of the Academy was appointed by the Monarch on the proposal of the Minister of Defence.
