Adam Mohuczy

Adam Mohuczy

Adam Mohuczy (1891-1953) was a Polish Navy officer. Captain of several ships and squadrons, Counter Admiral from 1946 and Chief of Staff and Commander of the Polish Navy from 1945-1947. In 1949 arrested by Polish secret police, accused of sabotage, tortured. Died in prison in 1953. In 1957 he was rehabilitated.

Biography

Adam was born on 7 March 1891 in Vitebsk, Russian Empire. He enlisted in the Russian Navy to become a military officer, finishing the Naval Corps School in Saint Petersburg in 1911.

From 1912 to 1916 he served aboard a training ship, armored cruiser General Admiral class "Gerzog Edinburgski", next, armored cruiser, "Rossiya", battleship "Tsarievitch", and submarines "Akula", "Bars" and "S-12". Later he was an instructor in Mykolaiv Naval Academy. In 1917 he took a course of underwater swimming.

In the aftermath of the First World War, Poland regained independence. Adam Mohuczy joined the Polish Navy; first he served in the organizational structures in Warsaw and Toruń.

He studied and graduated from Ecole de Guerre Navale in Paris in 1926.


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