Archive for the ‘Polish Commanders’ Category

Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski

Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski (* February 25 1896 in Warsaw Jazgarzew; † 29 July 1989 in London), nom de guerre Rygor was a Polish officer and head of the Polish secret in North Africa. life Słowikowski came in 1918 for the Polish army and was used from 1919 to 1921 in the Polish-Soviet War. In 1925 [...]

Maksymilian Ciężki

Heavy Maximilian (born 24 November 1898 in Szamotuły, d. November 9, 1951 in London, England) – Wielkopolska Uprising, the Polish Army Lt. Col. communication, participants work on breaking this cipher Enigma. The years before World War I. Born as one of nine children of a farmer’s daughter and even contractor. My father saw in him [...]

Gwido Langer

Gwido Charles Langer (born September 2, 1894 in Zilina, d. March 30, 1948 in Kinross, Scotland) – qualified infantry colonel of the Polish Army, head of the Cipher Bureau, where under his leadership in 1932 a group of Polish cryptographers broke the system of the German Enigma cipher machine. In July 1939, he turned over [...]

Józef Piłsudski

Józef Klemens Piłsudski (born December 5, 1867 in Zułów (lit. Zalavas) in Vilnius, Lithuania today; † 12 May 1935 in Warsaw) was a Polish military and politician, who fought against Russian rule, and later Marshal of the Second Polish Republic, which he ruled dictatorially temporarily. Life Beginning- Pilsudski was one of twelve children of a [...]

Wincenty Kowalski

Wincenty Kowalski (born 11 September 1892 in Warsaw, die on November 29, 1984 in River Forest) – Brigadier General of the Polish Army. Biography Youth He came from a family of craftsmen Warsaw. After graduating from Konarskiego and schools Wawelberg and Rotwand in Warsaw went and graduated from Polytechnic Institute in Liège (Belgium) at the [...]

Juliusz Zulauf

Juliusz Zulauf (born August 20, 1891 in Lviv, d. May 21, 1943 in Murnau) – Brigadier General of the Polish Army. Biography Youth Born and raised in Lviv. He was the son of Joseph and Mary with Małuszyńskich. In 1910, he graduated from high school seven-viable in Lviv. In the years 1910-1913 he studied at [...]

Józef Kosacki

Joseph Stanislaw Kosacki (born April 21, 1909 in Łapy, d. April 26, 1990 in Warsaw) – scientist, inventor, engineer, sapper, an officer of the Polish Armed Forces in the West during World War II. He invented the handheld mine detector, which was a major contribution to the Allied victory. Biography In 1928, after graduating from [...]

Mieczysław Boruta-Spiechowicz

Mieczyslaw Louis Boruta-Spiechowicz, ps. Kopa, Moravian (born 20 February 1894 in Rzeszów, d. Oct. 13, 1985 in Zakopane m) – Brigadier General of the Polish Army. Curriculum vitae Childhood and youth He was the son of Stanislaw and Angela Zator. He attended the School of Philosophy of the reality-im. Michael Kreczmar in Warsaw. From early [...]

Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski

Michael Thaddeus Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski coat of arms Trumpets, aka Frostbitten, Stawski, Stolarski, Torwid (born January 5, 1893 in Lviv, d. May 22, 1964 inCasablanca) – Lieutenant General of the Polish Army, freemason, theosophist, minister of the Church liberalnokatolickiego . Curriculum vitae Origin and youth He was born in Lviv. He was the son of Boleslaw Tokarzewski [...]

Mikołaj Bołtuć

Bołtuć Nicholas (born December 20, 1893 in St. Petersburg, died September 22, 1939 at Łomiankami) – Captain of the Russian Empire Army Corps, Brigadier General of the Polish Army. Curriculum vitae Childhood and youth He was the son of Ignatius, tsarist general, coat Dołęga and Anna Łabuńskich. In St. Petersburg at the high school he [...]

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