34th Bautzen Infantry Regiment

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Combat route of the 8th Dresden Infantry Division and also the 34th Bautzen Infantry Regiment

The 34th Infantry Regiment Bautzen (Pol. 34. Budziszyński pułk Piechoty ) was a unit of infantry of the Polish Army .

formation

Operation Luzycka - April 1945

Due to the order No. 7 of the commander of the 2nd Army of the Polish Army of September 13, 1944, the 23rd Infantry Regiment was renamed the 34th Infantry Regiment. At that time the regiment was stationed in the forest southeast of Mordy. There the soldiers of the regiment took an oath on October 21, 1944. The unit was part of the 8th Dresden Infantry Division and was organized on the basis of the Soviet position No. 04/501 of the Guards Rifle Regiment.

Combat missions

From training to the end of the war, the regiment fought in the 8th Dresden Infantry Division. During the advance of Nysa, which was operating in the main direction of the division's attack , it fought near Rothenburg; then in Geheege, Nieder Horka, Kollm, Jänkendorf and Diehs. It then operated in Ödernitz, Niesky, Bautzen, Grossdubrau, Grosswelka and Cölln, where it suffered heavy losses. North of Bautzen, where it worked as a single battalion with the units of the 1st Dresden Panzer Corps, they protected the staff of the 2nd Army of the Polish Army in the Kleinwelka region. During the Prague operation, the regiment fought in Lobendava and Mikulašovice . The combat operation ended near the village of Ušték .

post war period

On May 20, 1945, the regimental commander sent a task force to set up a post on the bridge over the Oder in Krosno Odrzański as soon as possible. From May 28, 1945, the regiment protected Poland's western border from Sadzarzewice to Zasiek. The regiment's headquarters were based in Brody . The 1st battalion of the regiment on the route from Sadzarzewice to Strzegów, watchtowers in Sadzarzewice, Markosice and Późna. The 2nd battalion on the route from Strzegów to Janiszowice guarded watchtowers southwest of Strzegów, in Mielno, in the forest south of Mielno and in Janiszowice, and the 3rd battalion protected the route to Zasiek and guarded a watchtower. On July 12, 1945, the 1st Battalion of the regiment arrived in Sanok and was housed in the local barracks until it belonged to the 2nd Podhale Rifle Regiment in 1939.

Due to the order No. 295 of the Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Army of August 28, 1945, the regiment was given the unmistakable name "Bautzen".

In 1945, based on the regiment, the “38. Komenda Odcinka Komańcza ”. Based on the Organization Ordinance No. 053 / Org. As Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Army, the regiment received on March 30, 1946 the military unit number "2873". After the war, the regiment was stationed in Łódź (Łódź Military District).

On March 28, 1947, the Lesko regiment was inspected by the Second Deputy Minister of Defense, Lieutenant General Karol Świerczewski, who died the next day in an ambush organized by UPA soldiers.

The unit took part in the “Wisła” campaign. During this time the regiment was commanded by Colonel Jan Gerhard. At that time the employees of the regiment operated in Wańkowa.

From June 7th to 9th, 1949, the unit was transferred to the Slupsk Garrison (Pomeranian Military District), where it took over the barracks at 61 Rokossowskiego Street. In the same year the unit was reformed into 34 Budziszyński Motorized Infantry Regiment. In 1950 the unit was placed under the command of the 16th Kashubian Mechanized Division and transformed into the 34th Bautzen Mechanized Regiment. In October 1952 the regiment was placed under the command of the 8th Mechanized Division of Dresden.

In autumn 1958, the unit was reformed into the 34th Bautzen Infantry Regiment and incorporated into the 23rd Infantry Division (later 7th Seeland Division ). In 1963 the unit was transformed into Landeregiment 34 Bautzen.

Soldiers of the regiment

Regimental commanders

  • Stanisław Pluto (August 28, 1944–1946)
  • Jan Gerhard (from 1946)
  • Józef Kamiński
  • Kazimierz Makarewicz (1956–1957)
  • Julian Baranowski

Deputy commanders of the regiment

  • Jan Gerhard
  • Major Emil Cimura

Chiefs of Staff

  • Wacław Warzywniak (- September 1944)
  • Jan Grablis
  • Leon Bereznicki
  • Antoni Szwander
  • Tadeusz Pawlikowski

Regimental officers

  • Rudolf Dzipanow
  • Afanazy Kopacz - Quartermaster
  • Kazimierz Lipiński
  • Paweł Miller
  • Dr. Janusz Modzelewski - senior physician of the regiment
  • Mieczysław Walesiuk

NCOs

  • Leon Kostecki
  • Tadeusz Ludas
  • Tadeusz Lipski

Awarded the Grunwald Cross, 3rd class (until December 31, 1946)

  • Mieczysław Walesiuk - posthumous
  • Czesław Zaprawa

Awarded the silver cross of the Virtuti Militari V-Class (until December 31, 1946)

  • Lubomir Ciesielski
  • Shot Jan Goryl - posthumously [a]
  • Major Józef Kamiński

The regiment probably received the banner on the day of the oath, October 22, 1944

Description of the banner: A piece of approx. 98 × 124 cm, trimmed with a golden border on three sides and attached to the shaft with nine wheels. Dark polished wooden spar. Head in the shape of an eagle on a ball that stands on a box base [b].

Front: White and gold eagles were applied and embroidered on the red field. In the lower right corner the number “34” embroidered with white gold thread.

Back: The words "EHRE UND HEIMAT" are embroidered with white and gold thread on a white field. In the lower right corner the number “34” embroidered with white gold thread.

bibliography

  • Wanda Bigoszewska, Henryk Wiewióra: Sztandary ludowego Wojska Polskiego 1943–1974 . Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1974.
  • Henryk Dominiczak: Wojska Ochrony Pogranicza w latach 1845–1948 . Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1971.
  • Stanisław Komornicki: Wojsko Polskie: krótki informator historyczny o Wojsku Polskim w latach II wojny światowej. 1, Regularne jednostki ludowego Wojska Polskiego: formowanie, działania bojowe, organizacja, uzbrojenie, metryki jednostek piechoty . Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej Warszawa 1965
  • Jerzy Kajetanowicz: Polskie wojska lądowe 1945–1960: skład bojowy, Struktury organizacyjne i uzbrojenie . Toruń; Łysomice: Europejskie Centrum Edukacyjne, 2005. ISBN 83-88089-67-6 .
  • Stanisław Rzepski: 8 Dywizja Piechoty. Z dziejów 8 Drezdeńskiej Dywizji Piechoty im. Bartosza Głowackiego . Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1970.
  • Zygmunt Traczyk: Ziemia Gubińska 1939–1949 …. Gubin: Stowarzyszenie Przyjaciół Ziemi Gubińskiej, 2011, s. 90. ISBN 978-83-88059-54-4 .
  • Mieczysław Juchniewicz, Stanisław Rzepski: Szlakiem 34 Budziszyńskiego Pułku Piechoty . Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1961.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rzepski: 8 Dywizja Piechoty ..., 1970, p. 282
  2. ↑ Traczyk: Ziemia Gubińska 1939–1949 …, 2011 p. 90.
  3. ↑ Rzepski: 8 Dywizja Piechoty ..., 1970, p. 416.
  4. ↑ Dominiczak: Wojska Ochrony Pogranicza w latach 1845–1948 …, 1971, p. 84.
  5. ↑ Kajetanowicz: Polskie wojska lądowe 1945–1960 … 2005, p. 432.
  6. ↑ Aneks. 20. Obsada personalna oficerów 34pp. W: Benedykt Gajewski: Walka z ukraińskim podziemiem na południowo-wschodnim obszarze Polski w latach 1944–1948. Publikacje, raporty, relacje, zeznania. Sanok: 2005, p. 407
  7. ↑ Aneks. 24. Lista żołnierzy 34pp odznaczonych za walkę z UPA. W: Benedykt Gajewski: Walka z ukraińskim podziemiem na południowo-wschodnim obszarze Polski w latach 1944–1948. Publikacje, raporty, relacje, zeznania. Sanok: 2005, p. 430.
  8. ↑ Bigoszewska, Wiewióra: Sztandary ludowego Wojska Polskiego 1943–1974 …, 1974 p. 92.