Casimir Smogorzewski

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Casimir Smogorzewski , also Maciej Kazimierz Smogorzewski (born February 24, 1896 in Sielec, † November 4, 1992 in Shepperton near London ) was a Polish writer.

Life and activity

Smogorzewski was a son of Casimir Smogorzewski of the same name and his wife Mary, nee. Pyzalski. In 1913 he went to Paris to study . During the First World War , Smogorzewski was a volunteer in the French Army. In 1919 he took part in the Paris Peace Conference as Secretary of Dmowski .

From 1919 to 1925 Smogorzewski was a correspondent for the newspaper Gazeta Warsaw , then he headed the newspaper Illustrierter Tages Courier ( Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny ). From 1929 to 1933 he then acted as editor of the monthly La Pologne .

During the Second World War, Smogorzewski was editor of the magazine Free Europe from 1939 , a two-week publication that addressed emigrants from the European countries occupied by the German armies. In addition, he published some brochures that dealt with the war and its political consequences.

Due to his work in the context of Free Europe , Smogorzewski came under the sights of the police forces of National Socialist Germany, who classified him as an important target: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people who were part of the Nazi surveillance apparatus regarded as particularly dangerous or important, which is why in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht, special SS units following the occupying forces should find and arrest them with special priority.

From 1942 he was part of the editorial team of the Encyclopedia Britannica , for which he worked until 1989. He also wrote from 1957 to 1981 as a correspondent for Kurier Polski magazine .

After his death, his ashes were buried in Warsaw .

Fonts

  • Tadeusz Kościuszko: szkic biograficzny , 1917.
  • La Pologne restaurée , 1927.
  • L'union sacrée polonaise: le gouvernment de Varsovie et le "gouvernement" polonaise de Paris (1918-1919) , 1929.
  • Poland, Germany and the Corridor , 1930.
  • Joseph Pilsudski et les activistes polonais pendant la guerre , 1931.
  • Poporze et les relation germano-polonaises , 1931.
  • La Poméranie polonaise , 1932.
  • Poland's Access to the Sea , 1934.
  • About the Curzon Line and Other Lines , 1944.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Smogorzewski in the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .
personal data
SURNAME Smogorzewski, Casimir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Sielec
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 1992
Place of death Shepperton near London