Zygmunt Padlewski
Zygmunt Padlewski ( January 1, 1836 - May 15, 1863 in Płock ) was one of the leaders of the Polish January uprising of 1863.
Life
Between 1859 and 1861 he served as an officer , most recently in the rank of captain , in the Russian army . He was one of the Polish officers involved in the Zygmunt Sierakowski conspiracy . He then went to the West to prepare for the January Uprising with others. From August 1862 he was a member of the secret Polish underground committee, became director of the military department and was secretly commander of Warsaw . He belonged to the so-called red wing of the conspirators and pleaded for a quick strike. The background was that the head of government, Aleksander Wielopolski , who belonged to the tsar, was planning to call 12,000 young men suspected of supporting the Polish independence movement into the military. On January 22nd, 1863, the underground committee declared itself the provisional Polish national government. This declared war on Russia. After the uprising began, Padlewski was the leader of the rebels in the Płock area. Captured by a Russian Cossack force , Padlewski was sentenced to death and executed .
literature
- Jerzy Jan Lerski: Historical dictionary of Poland, 966–1945. Westport 1996 p. 417. Online
- Jerzy Lukowski, WH Zawadzki: A concise history of Poland. Cambridge, 2006 p. 178. Online
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Padlewski, Zygmunt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish independence fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1836 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 1863 |
| Place of death | Plock |