Adam Kogut

Adam Kogut
Personnel
Surname	Adam Władysław Kogut
birthday	January 4, 1895
place of birth	Krakow ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	April 16, 1940
Place of death	Katyn ,  Soviet Union
size	1.63 m
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
1912	Robotniczy KS Krakow
1913	Polonia Krakow
1913	Krakus Krakow
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1914-1918	Cracovia Krakow
1918-1919	Wisła Krakow
1919-1923	Cracovia	73 (75)
1924	Polonia Przemyśl
1924-1926	Czarni Radom
1927-1928	Polonia Warsaw	11 0(6)
1928-1929	Gwiazda Warszawa
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1922	Poland	1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Adam Władysław Kogut (born January 4, 1895 in Kraków , † April 16, 1940 in Katyn ) was a Polish football player . In 1940 he was the victim of the Katyn massacre of Polish officers by the Soviet secret police NKVD .

Life

Kogut was born a citizen of Austria-Hungary , his parents were Poles. At the beginning of the First World War he joined the Polish legions that fought against the troops of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II under Austrian command .

He was one of the Polish associations that were supposed to be subordinate to the German army command in the summer of 1917 , but refused to take the oath of allegiance to Kaiser Wilhelm II and were therefore dissolved. The leader of the legions, Józef Piłsudski , who was interned in Magdeburg , was aiming for the rebirth of the Polish state and was therefore interested in a defeat of the Germans against the Allies .

After the dissolution of the legions, Kogut was drafted into the Austrian army . In 1918 he was captured by Ukrainian units in Galicia that were also fighting for an independent state. He was only released in the spring of 1919 after the victory of the newly established Polish army in the fighting against the Ukrainians at the end of 1918 . He joined the new Polish army and became a professional soldier . He was later transferred to Przemyśl and Warsaw . He qualified for a career as an officer , and he also completed a distance learning teacher training course.

Kogut hit the headlines when he was tried in 1930 for attempted manslaughter in the provincial town of Radom . According to the local press, he had fired two shots at a coffeehouse visitor who had molested him and other guests and seriously injured him. The court acquitted him for having acted “in self-defense and in defense of his officer's honor”.

At the beginning of World War II , Kogut served in the rank of captain in a tank brigade . In the second half of September 1939, after the Red Arms marched into eastern Poland , he was taken prisoner by the Soviets ; he was deported to the Koselsk special camp in the Russian district of Kaluga . He was one of the Polish officers who were taken to a forest around 300 kilometers to the west not far from the village of Katyn in April 1940 and shot there. His remains were of Polish pathologist who in the spring of 1943 after the discovery of mass graves under German supervision exhumations first names, its based identification tag identified. On the list of names of the Katyn victims distributed by the Foreign Office , he can be found under number 809.

In 2007, President Lech Kaczyński posthumously promoted all officers murdered in Katyn by one rank , thus giving Kogut the rank of major .

Athletic career

As a teenager, Kogut played for three Krakow clubs one after the other. At the age of 18 he joined Cracovia Krakow , the sports club of the liberal bourgeoisie. From there, after four years, he moved to local rivals Wisła Krakau , the Association of National Patriots, which did not accept Jewish members, only to return to Cracovia after only one season in 1919. In the next four years, the 1.63 meter tall striker scored 75 goals in 73 games for Cracovia.

He was known for his temper, he was repeatedly from the provided space and locks occupied. In December 1922 he was banned for a full year for “unsportsmanlike conduct” and “ insulting referees ”. The sentence was later reduced to six months.

On May 30, 1922 he was in the Polish national team, which won 2-1 in Stockholm against Sweden . It was the Poles' very first victory. However, it remained Kogut's only international mission.

His transfer to other locations of the Polish armed forces forced him to change clubs. In 1927 he joined the Polish runner-up Polonia Warsaw. Although he came to several missions, but could not assert himself there, so that he said goodbye to top football after a season.

Web links

• National Digital Archives (NAC) (1 photo from 1921)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ biographical information according to wislakrakow.com November 17, 2009.
2. ^ Heinrich August Winkler: History of the West. The time of the world wars 1914–1945. Munich, 2011, p. 37.
3. ↑ Information on the career
4. ^ Słowo (Radom edition) ( Memento of April 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) November 11, 1930, p. 1.
5. ↑ Bogdan Tuszyński: Za cenę życia. Sport Polski Walczącej 1939–1945. Warszawa 2006, p. 130
6. ↑ Official material on the Katyn mass murder , Berlin 1943, p. 187
7. ↑ Gazety Wyborcza ( Memento November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) November 7, 2007.
8. ↑ ^{a b} wislakrakow.com November 17, 2009.
9. ↑ Prglich Sportowy December 8, 1922, p. 2.
10. ↑ Przegląd Sportowy , June 9, 1922, p. 6.
11. ↑ Bogdan Tuszyński: Przerwany bieg. Sportowcy z Kozielska, Ostaszkowa i Starobielska. Warszawa 1993, p. 142.