Karol Dubicz-Penther

Karol Dubicz-Penther (born June 2, 1892 in Żyrardów , † January 15, 1945 in Lisbon ) was a Polish diplomat.

Life and activity

After attending school, Dubicz-Penther studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg .

In 1915 Dubicz-Penther was drafted into the Russian army to participate in the First World War . He deserted and joined the Polish Legion, with whose 2nd Uhlan Regiment he fought on the side of the Central Powers until 1918. At the end of the First World War he joined the army of the newly emerging Polish state, in which he was promoted to the rank of major. In 1919 he was a member of the Polish military attaché office in Bern. In 1920 he was a liaison officer at the Polish Army High Command. This was followed by assignments in the war ministry and as head of the intelligence department at the Polish commissioner's office in Gdansk .

At the end of the 1920s, Dubicz-Penther entered the diplomatic service of the Polish Republic: on October 31, 1929, he was appointed secretary of the Polish embassy in Tehran . He then worked in the political and economic department of the Polish Foreign Ministry in Warsaw.

On November 1, 1932, Dubicz-Penther moved to the Polish embassy in Ankara as counselor (?) . On February 1, 1937, he was appointed Extraordinary Minister Envoy and Plenipotentiary to the Polish Government in Lisbon. He held this post until September 1943, when he was replaced by Gustaw Potworowski .

Classified by the National Socialist police forces as an enemy of the state, Dubicz-Penther - whom the National Socialists mistakenly suspected to be in Great Britain - was placed on the special wanted list by the Reich Main Security Office in the spring of 1940 , a directory of people who would have been killed in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht should be located and arrested by the occupation troops following special SS commandos with special priority.

literature

Tessa Stirling: Intelligence Co-operation Between Poland and Great Britain During World War II , 2005, Vol. 2.

Individual evidence

^ Entry on Dubicz-Penther on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London).

personal data
SURNAME	Dubicz-Penther, Karol
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dubicze-Penther, Karol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	June 2, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Żyrardów
DATE OF DEATH	January 15, 1945
Place of death	Lisbon

[1] Entry on Dubicz-Penther on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London).