Józef Broel-Plater
Józef Broel-Plater | |
nation | Poland |
birthday | November 15, 1890 |
place of birth | Kombuļi , Russian Empire |
date of death | June 30, 1941 |
Place of death | Dachau Concentration Camp , Germany |
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last change: February 2, 2016 |
Józef Jan Andrzej Joachim Plater (Broel-Plater) (born November 15, 1890 in Kombuļi , Russian Empire (now Latvia ); † June 30, 1941 Dachau concentration camp ) was a Polish bobsledder and officer .
Józef Broel-Plater came from a traditional and wealthy Lithuanian noble family, the Broel-Plater family . He was a descendant of Jan Ludwik Broel Plater († 1736), who was called the Patriarch of Livonia , and was related to the freedom fighter Emilia Plater (1806-1831).
During the First World War , Broel-Plater fought as a volunteer on the side of the French army. He reached the rank of lieutenant and was awarded the Croix de guerre . Towards the end of the war he served in the Polish Blue Army within the French Army under General Józef Haller .
1928 Broel-Plater launched together with Jerzy Bardziński , Jerzy Potulicki-Skórzewski , Jerzy Lucki and Antoni Bura (all officers of the Polish Army) at the Winter Olympics in St. Moritz in Fünferbob . The Polish team took 17th place.
After the occupation of Poland by the German Wehrmacht , Józef Broel-Plater was arrested by the Gestapo in January 1940 . On September 6, 1940, he was sent to the Dachau concentration camp , he held the prisoner number 18515. There he died on June 30, 1941.
Web links
- Józef Broel-Plater in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Od kapitana Jerzego Łuckiego do Oli Król i Dawida Kubackiego. In: nowytarg.pl. January 25, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2016 (Polish).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Historia. Polish Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (PZBiS), accessed August 29, 2014 (Polish).
- ↑ stevemorse.org: Database of inmates of the Dachau concentration camp (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Broel-Plater, Jozef |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Plater, Józef Jan Andrzej Joachim; Broel-Plater, Józef Jan Andrzej Joachim |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish bobsledder |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1890 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kombuļi |
DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1941 |
Place of death | Dachau concentration camp |