Tadeusz Puszczyński
- Birth Date:
- 02.02.1895
- Death date:
- 02.02.1939
- Extra names:
- Tadeusz Puszczyński, Konrad Wawelberg
- Categories:
- Independece fighter, Legionary, Officer, Scout, spy
- Nationality:
- pole
- Cemetery:
- Warsaw, Old Powązki Cemetery
Tadeusz Puszczyński (nom de guerre: "Konrad Wawelberg"; February 2, 1895 in Piotrków Trybunalski – February 24, 1939 in Warsaw) was a Polish military intelligence officer who commanded the Polish General Staff's Destruction Group during the Third Silesian Uprising.
Tadeusz Puszczyński was born on February 2, 1895, in the village of Józinki near Piotrków Trybunalski in Congress Poland. He graduated from the same Piotrków secondary school as Stefan Rowecki and Zygmunt Zaremba, and was a member of the same boy-scout troop as Rowecki.
During World War I, Puszczyński served in Józef Piłsudski's Polish Legions, then participated in the Silesian Uprisings. In the Third Silesian Uprising, he commanded the Polish General Staff's Destruction Group (known, after his pseudonym, as the "Wawelberg Group"). The Wawelberg Group opened the uprising on May 2-3, 1921, by blowing up bridges linking Upper Silesia with the rest of Germany, thus thwarting immediate German measures to suppress the uprising.
In the 1920s Puszczyński joined Poland's Border Defence Corps, in 1936 becoming commandant of the Sarny garrison (see "Sarny Fortified Area").
Puszczyński died on February 24, 1939, in Warsaw and was interred at Powązki Cemetery.
Source: wikipedia.org
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| Relation name | Relation type | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Stefan Rowecki | Friend | |
| 2 |  | Edward Rydz-Śmigły | Commander |
02.05.1921 | Third Silesian Uprising began
The Third Silesian Uprising (Polish: Trzecie powstanie śląskie) was the last, largest and longest of the three uprisings. It included the Battle of Annaberg.