Tadeusz Kutrzeba
- Birth Date:
- 15.04.1886
- Death date:
- 08.01.1947
- Length of life:
- 60
- Days since birth:
- 50407
- Years since birth:
- 138
- Days since death:
- 28224
- Years since death:
- 77
- Extra names:
- Tadeusz Kutrzeba
- Categories:
- General, Independece fighter, Order of Lacplesis, WWI participant, WWII participant
- Nationality:
- pole
- Cemetery:
- Warszawa, Powązki Military Cemetery
Tadeusz Kutrzeba (15 April 1885 - 8 January 1947) was an army general of the Second Polish Republic. He was the Captain of the General Staff of the Imperial and Royal Army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Divisional General of the Polish Army and the commander of Army Poznań during the defensive war of 1939.
Kutrzeba was born in Kraków, then part of Austria-Hungary. In 1906 he graduated with distinction from the Military Technical Academy (Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna) in Mödling and was enlisted as Second Lieutenant in a minesweeping unit.
During the Invasion of Poland in 1939 he commanded the Poznań Army composed of four infantry divisions (14, 17, 25, 26) and two cavalry brigades (Wielkopolska and Podolska). He devised the Polish counterattack plan of the battle of Bzura and commanded the Poznan and Pomorze Armies during the battle. After the siege of Warsaw he was captured by the Germans and spent the rest of the war in several prisoner of war camps: Hohenstein, Königstein and Oflag VII-A Murnau.
After World War II he became chairman of the September Campaign Historical Committee in London. He was struck with cancer and died in London on 8 January 1947.
Honours and awards
Poland- Commander's Cross of the Virtuti Militari, previously awarded the Knight's Cross and the Silver Cross (1921)
- Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1930), previously awarded the Officer's Cross
- Cross of Valour - three times
- Gold Cross of Merit
- Officer of the Legion of Honour (France)
- Commander's Cross of the Order of the Star of Romania
- Commander's Cross of the Order of the Crown (Belgium)
- Cross of Liberty, Class II (Estonia)
- Order of the Cross of the Eagle, Class II (1932, Estonia)
- Order of Lāčplēsis Third Class (Latvia)
- Academic Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature
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01.09.1939 | Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War (Polish: Kampania wrześniowa or Wojna obronna 1939 roku) in Poland and the Poland Campaign (German: Polenfeldzug) or Fall Weiß (Case White) in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, while the Soviet invasion commenced on 17 September following the Molotov-Tōgō agreement which terminated the Russian and Japanese hostilities (Nomonhan incident) in the east on 16 September. The campaign ended on 6 October with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland.
09.09.1939 | Battle of the Bzura
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