Tadeusz Komorowski
Count Tadeusz Komorowski (born June 1, 1895 in Chorobrów , Galicia , Austria-Hungary (today Tarnopol region , Ukraine ); † August 24, 1966 in Grove Farm , Buckinghamshire , Great Britain ) was Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa - AK).
biography
He came from the Polish noble family of the Counts Komorowski . After graduating from the Military Academy in Vienna (1913-1915) he was an officer in the Austrian army. Under the code name "Bór" he took part in the First World War as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army . Komorowski was a professional soldier in the Polish Republic. As an eventing rider, he participated in the 1924 Summer Olympics . At the 1936 Summer Olympics he was head of the cavalry team.
In Poland , which had been occupied since 1939 , he went underground and from July 1943 became chief of Armia Krajowa . On August 1, 1944, as Commander in Chief, he gave the order for the Warsaw Uprising . On October 5, 1944, he went with the last of the AK fighters into German captivity. From February to April 1945 Komorowski was a prisoner in the Oflag IV-C Colditz . During his captivity, he was symbolically appointed Commander in Chief of the Polish Armed Forces. After the war he went into exile in London . From 1947 to 1949 Komorowski was prime minister of the government in exile .
In 1952 he testified in London before the Madden Commission , the US Congress' committee to investigate the Katyn massacre .
Individual evidence
- ^ The Katyn Forest Massacre US Government Printing Office. Washington 1952, Vol. 4, p. 708.
Web links
- Literature by and about Tadeusz Komorowski in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography on the homepage of the government chancellery (Polish)
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SURNAME | Komorowski, Tadeusz |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boron; Bór-Komorowski, Tadeusz |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Commander in Chief of the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1895 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Chorobrów , Galicia , Austria-Hungary |
DATE OF DEATH | August 24, 1966 |
Place of death | Grove Farm , Buckinghamshire , UK |