Józef Englicht was a Polish Army lieutenant colonel

Lieutenant colonel

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 and intelligence officer

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.

Career

During World War I

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, Englicht fought in the Polish Legions

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After the war, he served on the Polish General Staff

General Staff

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's Section II (the intelligence section

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), eventually becoming its deputy chief. In this position, like the successive Section II chiefs, Tadeusz Schaetzel

Tadeusz Schaetzel

Tadeusz Schaetzel was a Polish Army colonel, intelligence officer, Promethean leader, diplomat and politician.-Career:During World War I, Schaetzel served in the Polish Legions and as deputy director of the Chief Command of the 3rd Polish Military Organization , in Kiev.After Poland had regained...

 and Tadeusz Pełczyński, he was very supportive of Marshal

Marshal of Poland

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 Józef Piłsudski's Promethean

Prometheism

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 project, aimed at liberating the non-Russia

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n peoples of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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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

Invasion of Poland (1939)

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Englicht made his way to Great Britain

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, 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).

After the war, in London

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, he wrote for and edited the Polish military journal, Bellona.

See also

• Edmund Charaszkiewicz
• Prometheism
• List of Poles