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The study examines the issue of flight at the end of the First World War in two cross-sections of the largest county in the Kingdom of Hungary in terms of area and population. The first part of the study looks at the policies that the state administration used to supply and employ refugees, and at the strategies that refugee officials employed to seek jobs and flats. The second part, based on a specific sort of the county administration’s papers, seeks to trace the background and career paths of the individual officials who remained in the county. This is all the more important because the analysis reveals that there are more similarities between the late Dualist period and the early Horthy regime (and between the Károlyi administration and the Republic of Council in between) than one might think. The change was then brought about by a centralised state refugee policy, with housing schemes and centralised social politics: while the state administration, overly bloated with refugee officials, was in 1922 pushed in large numbers from the state administration into the private sector or among the pensioners.