Edward L. Rowny

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Lieutenant General Edward L. Rowny

Edward Leon Rowny (born April 3, 1917 in Baltimore , Maryland - † December 17, 2017 in Washington, DC ) was an American officer in the US Army , who last served as Lieutenant General from 1973 to 1979 as a representative of the Chiefs of the United General Staff ( Joint Chiefs of Staff ) participated in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ( SALT ) in Geneva .

Life

Edward Leon równy, son of Polish immigrants, completed his education in 1933 at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and completed a degree in engineering sciences at the Johns Hopkins University , he with a Bachelor of Science ended. He completed his officer training at the US Military Academy at West Point . In the following years he found numerous posts as an officer and staff officer in the US Army and was during the Second World War after the Allied invasion of Italy in 1944 commander of a battalion of the 92nd Infantry Division (92nd Infantry Division) , which was deployed on the west coast of Italy . After the end of the war, the company relocated to the South Pacific and participated in the planning for the invasion of Japan .

Rowny was later transferred to General Douglas MacArthur's staff during the Korean War , where he was his spokesman and one of the planning officers for Operation Chromite , the fighting at Incheon (September 15 to September 28, 1950) and the retaking of Seoul . He also organized an airlift that would allow the evacuation of soldiers from the US Army and US Marines after the battle of the Changjin Reservoir (November 26 to December 13, 1950). He was also responsible for the evacuation of US units, which enabled hundreds of thousands of North Koreans to escape to South Korea . After completing his postgraduate studies in engineering at Yale University, he obtained a Master of Arts (MA Engineering) and completed another degree in International Relations with a Master of Arts (MA International Affairs). He also earned a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D. ) in International Relations from American University . After he was an assistant of the Department Tactical mobility of the Army Staff, he was from 1965 to 1966 commander in Augsburg stationed 24th Mechanized Infantry Division ( 24th Mechanized Infantry Division ) .

During the Vietnam War , Edward L. Rowny dealt with the use of attack helicopters for combat missions by the Army and was then Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics of the US Armed Forces in Europe from 1968 to 1969. He then served from 1969 to 1971 deputy chief for research and development and 1970-1971 Commanding General (Commanding General) of the I Corps ( I Corps ) , before the 1971-1973 Vice Chairman of the NATO Military Committee was. He was last in 1973 representatives of the Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( Joint Chiefs of Staff ) strategic in talks to limit arms SALT ( Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ) in Geneva and held this position until his retirement as a lieutenant general in 1979 under the US- Presidents Richard Nixon , Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter . In June 1979 he resigned in protest against the signing of the SALT II treaty by President Jimmy Carter, as this treaty would undermine the security of the United States in his view.

Edward L. Rowny (2013)

Following the election of Ronald Reagan as US president równy was from 1981 to 1985. First the rank of ambassador 's chief negotiator in the negotiations on the Treaty to reduce strategic arms START ( Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ) and during the second term, Reagan's 1985-1989 Special Adviser to the Arms Control President. In 1989 he was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal for services in these functions . In addition, he was President of the Alumni Association of the National War College (NWC) from 1987 to 1988 and then from 1989 to 1990 also special advisor to President George HW Bush on arms control. In 2003 he was first Vice-President of the American-Polish Council APAC (American Polish Advisory Council) and in 2007 he was appointed President of APAC as the successor to the former US Ambassador to Poland Nicholas Andrew Rey . In 2004 he founded the Paderewski Scholarship, named after the pianist, composer and politician Ignacy Jan Paderewski , which enables Polish students to study at Georgetown University . In 2005 he was awarded the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation for his services to American-Polish relations with Pope John Paul II , Anna Walentynowicz and other representatives of the Solidarność trade union . In 2007 he was also the by Walter Henry Judd named Walter Judd Freedom Award of the Fund for American Studies (The Fund for American Studies) excellent.

His first marriage to his wife Mary Rita Rowny, who died on October 16, 1988, had five children. In 1994 he married Elizabeth Ladd for the second time.

publication

  • It Takes One to Tango , autobiography, 1992

Awards

Selection of awards, sorted based on the Order of Precedence of Military Awards :

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personal data
SURNAME Rowny, Edward L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rowny, Edward Leon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American officer, lieutenant general in the US Army
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 2017
Place of death Washington, DC