Tadeusz Kutrzeba

Who was Tadeusz Kutrzeba?

Tadeusz Kutrzeba 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 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 and two cavalry brigades. 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, Königstein 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.