Tadeusz Kutrzeba

Tadeusz Kutrzeba

Tadeusz Kutrzeba (15 April 1885 - 8 January 1947) was an army general of the Second Polish Republic.

Kutrzeba was born in Kraków, then part of Austria-Hungary. In 1906 he graduated with distinction from the Military Technical Academy (Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna) in Mödling and was enlisted as Second Lieutenant in a minesweeping unit.

During the Invasion of Poland in 1939 he commanded the Poznań Army composed of four infantry divisions (14, 17, 25, 26) and two cavalry brigades (Wielkopolska and Podolska). He devised the Polish counterattack plan of the battle of Bzura and commanded the Poznan and Pomorze Armies during the battle. After the siege of Warsaw he was captured by the Germans and spent the rest of the war in several prisoner of war camps: Hohenstein, Koenigstein and Oflag VII-A Murnau.

After World War II he became chairman of the September Campaign Historical Committee in London. He was struck with cancer and died in London on 8 January 1947.

He was the recipient of Virtuti Militari medal (2nd, 3rd and 5th Class), Order Odrodzenia Polski 3rd and 5th class, Krzyz Walecznych (3 times), Zloty Krzyz Zaslugi and various foreign medals.


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