Tadeusz Kutrzeba
| Tadeusz Kutrzeba | |
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| Born |
15 April 1885 Kraków, Galicia, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 8 January 1947 (aged 61) London, United Kingdom |
| Allegiance |
 Austria-Hungary (1903–1918) Second Polish Republic (1918–1939)
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| Service/branch |
.png){kind=small} Austro-Hungarian Army Polish Legions Polish Army
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| Years of service | 1903–1945 |
| Rank | Major General |
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First World War
Polish–Soviet War
Second World War
Tadeusz Kutrzeba (15 April 1885 – 8 January 1947) was a general of the army during the Second Polish Republic. He served as a major general in the Polish Army in overall command of Army Poznań during the 1939 German Invasion of Poland.
Tadeusz Kutrzeba was born in Kraków, a part of Austria-Hungary, since the 1795 partition of Poland. His father was a captain in the Imperial Austrian Army. In 1896, he was admitted to a military school for children in Fischau near Wiener Neustadt. He then continued his studies in the city of Hranice. Kutrzeba completed his secondary education in 1903. He graduated with distinction from the Military Technical Academy in Mödling and was commissioned as a second lieutenant, in an explosives ordnance unit. On account of his performance in school, he was given the option of choosing the location of his first posting. He chose to return to his native Kraków where he was posted from 1906 to 1910. In 1910, Kutrzeba continued his military education in Vienna, studying engineering, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in 1911. From 1913 to 1914, he was posted to Sarajevo, where he witnessed the immediate catalyst for the outbreak of the First World War: the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.
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