Emil August Fieldorf
| Emil August Fieldorf | |
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| Born |
March 20, 1895 Kraków, Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Poland) |
| Died | February 24, 1953 (aged 57) Warsaw, Poland |
| Other names |
nom de guerre Nil also, Walenty Gdanicki |
| Citizenship | Polish |
| Occupation | soldier, generał brygady |
| Known for | Armia Krajowa's Kedyw commander |
Emil August Fieldorf "Nil" (20 March 1895 – 24 February 1953) was a Polish brigadier general. He was Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Armia Krajowa (AK or "Home Army"), after the failure of the Warsaw Uprising (October 1944 – January 1945). The Soviet NKVD executed Fieldorf in 1953.
General Fieldorf's ancestors were partly of German origin. He was born on March 20, 1895 in Kraków. There he finished men's college of St Nicholas and later a seminary. In 1910 he joined the Polish pro-independence paramilitary organization Riflemen's Association, becoming a full member in 1912. He also finished the school for non-commissioned officers.
On 6 August 1914, Fieldorf volunteered for the newly formed 1st Brigade of the Legions under Józef Piłsudski. With them he set out for the Russian Front, where he served in the position of second-in-command of an infantry platoon. In 1916 he was promoted to sergeant, and in 1917 directed to officer school.
After the oath crisis he was pressed into the Austro-Hungarian Army and moved to the Italian front, which he abandoned to return to Poland. In August 1918 he volunteered at the Polish Military Organisation in his home city of Kraków.
From November 1918 Fieldorf served in the ranks of the Polish Army in the newly forming Second Republic, initially as a platoon commander, and from March 1919 commanded a heavy machine gun company. In 1919 and 1920 he took part in the campaign to join the Wilno region to Poland proper. After the commencement of the Polish-Bolshevik War, as a company commander he participated in liberating Dyneburg, Żytomierz and in the 1920 Polish Expedition to Kiev.
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