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

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, accused of sabotage, tortured. He died in prison in 1953. In 1957 he was rehabilitated.

Biography

Adam was born on 7 March 1891 in

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. He enlisted in the Russian Navy to become a

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, finishing the Naval Corps School in

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in 1911. From 1912 to 1916 he served aboard a

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General-Admiral class '' Gerzog Edinburgski'', next, armoured cruiser, '' Rossiya'',

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'' Tsarievitch'', and

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s '' Akula'', '' Bars'' and ''

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''. Later he was an instructor in

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Naval Academy. In 1917 he took a course of underwater swimming. In the aftermath of the

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, Poland regained independence. Adam Mohuczy joined the Polish Navy; first he served in the organizational structures in

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and

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. He studied and graduated from École de Guerre Navale in

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in 1926.

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Adam Mohuczy
on dzieje.pl

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