Zygmunt Sadowski

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Zygmunt Sadowski (born April 20, 1946 , † December 10, 2003 ) was a Polish military with the rank of lieutenant general .

Life

He did his basic military service from 1965 to 1966 at the Centrum Szkolenia Marynarki Wojennej (Training Center of the Navy) in Lędowo . In 1968 he graduated from the Wyższa Szkoła Oficerska Wojsk Pancernych (Higher Officers School of the Armored Force) in Poznań . He then served in the 13th Pułk Zmechanizowany ( Mechanized Infantry Regiment ) in Kożuchów , where he was promoted to chief of staff of a tank battalion. From 1976 to 1979 he attended the Malinovsky Military Academy of Armored Forces in Moscow . He then became Chief of Staff of the 18th Pułk Czołgów (Panzer Regiment) in Wędrzyn (hiking near Zielenzig, East Brandenburg) . From 1981 to 1984 he commanded the 12th Pułk Zmechanizowany in Gorzów Wielkopolski . He then became deputy chief of staff of the 5th Panzer Division in Gubin . In 1988 he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union . From 1988 to 1990 he commanded the 11th Panzer Division in Żagań .

From 1990 to 1996 he was Deputy Chief of Staff of the Śląski Okręg Wojskowy (Silesian Military District) in Wroclaw . In this capacity he led in 1994 the first international military exercises under the program Partnership for Peace on the military training area Biedrusko (formerly Warthelager ). In 1996 he became head of the Zarząd Programowania Rozwoju Sił Zbrojnych (Staff for Programmatic Development of the Armed Forces) in the Polish General Staff . From December 1998 until the reform in 2001 he commanded the corpus Powietrzno-Zmechanizowany ("Air Mechanized Infantry Corps") in Krakow . In 2001 he took over the management of the Multinational Corps North-East in Szczecin . He died in this capacity in 2003 after a brief illness.

He was buried in the Grabiszyński Cemetery in Wroclaw. He left a wife and two children.

Honors

  • In 2004 he was named patron of the 11th Batalion Dowodzenia (Staff Battalion) in Żagań .
  • The “Żagań – Las” barracks complex on Szosa Żarska Street in Żagań bears his name.
  • In the Szczecin district of Pogodno (Braunsfelde) a street was named after him and a memorial plaque was attached to the building at number six.

source

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Krakowskie Studia Międzynarodowe 2007/4 , p. 188
  2. ^ By decision 265 of September 9, 2004 of the Polish Ministry of Defense
  3. ^ Description on the website of the Szczecin City Administration
personal data
SURNAME Sadowski, Zygmunt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish military
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1946
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 2003