Józef Englicht (1891–1954) was a
Polish Army
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lieutenant colonel
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and
intelligence officer
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.
Career
During World War I, Englicht fought in the
Polish Legions.
After the first world war, he served on the Polish
General Staff
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's Section II (the
intelligence section), eventually becoming its deputy chief. In this position, like the successive Section II chiefs,
Tadeusz Schaetzel and
Tadeusz Pełczyński
Tadeusz Walenty Pełczyński (codenames: ''Grzegorz'', ''Adam'', ''Wolf'', ''Robak''; Warsaw, 14 February 1892 – 3 January 1985, London) was a Polish Army major general (''generał brygady''), intelligence officer and chief of the General Staf ...
, he was very supportive of
Marshal
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Józef Piłsudski
), Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire (now Lithuania)
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's
Promethean project, aimed at liberating the non-Russian peoples of the Soviet Union.
From 1937 to March 1939 Englicht commanded the 79th Infantry Regiment, before resuming his post as deputy chief of Section II, in which position he went through the 1939
September Campaign
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.
Englicht made his way to Great Britain, where in 1942 he was appointed commandant of the Infantry Training Center (''Centrum Szkolenia Piechoty'') and in 1944 commandant of the Center for Advanced Military Studies (''Centrum Wyższych Studiów Wojskowych''). From March 1945 he was commandant of the War College (''
Wyższa Szkoła Wojenna
The National Defence University of Warsaw ( – AON) was the civil-military highest defense (military), defence academic institution in Poland, located in Warszawa–Rembertów. In 2016 it was succeeded by the War Studies University.
The National ...
'').
After the war, in London, he wrote for and edited the Polish military journal, ''Bellona''.
[ Charaszkiewicz, p. 68.]
See also
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Edmund Charaszkiewicz#Prometheism
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Prometheism#Cossack affairs
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List of Poles#Intelligence
Notes
References
*Edmund Charaszkiewicz, ''Zbiór dokumentów ppłk. Edmunda Charaszkiewicza'' (A Collection of Documents by Lt. Col. Edmund Charaszkiewicz), ''opracowanie, wstęp i przypisy'' (edited, with introduction and notes by) Andrzej Grzywacz, Marcin Kwiecień, Grzegorz Mazur, Kraków, Księgarnia Akademicka, 2000, .
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Edmund Charaszkiewicz
Edmund Kalikst Eugeniusz Charaszkiewicz (; Poniec, 14 October 1895 – 22 December 1975, London) was a Polish military intelligence officer who specialized in clandestine warfare. Between the World Wars, he helped establish Poland's interbellum ...
, ''"Referat o zagadnieniu prometejskim"'' ("Report on the Promethean Question"), in ''Zbiór dokumentów ppłk. Edmunda Charaszkiewicza'' (A Collection of Documents by Lt. Col. Edmund Charaszkiewicz).
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1891 births
1954 deaths
Polish intelligence officers
Polish emigrants to the United Kingdom