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
Career
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

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Historia. Polish Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (PZBiS), accessed August 29, 2014 (Polish). 
2. ↑ stevemorse.org: Database of inmates of the Dachau concentration camp (English)