Tadeusz B r-Komorowski
General Count Tadeusz Komorowski (June 1, 1895 - August 24, 1966), better known by the name Bór-Komorowski (Bór being one of his wartime code-names), Polish military leader, was born in Lwów (then officially Lemberg in the Austro-Hungarian Empire). In the First World War he was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army, and after the war served as an officer in the Polish Army, becoming commander of the Grudziadz Cavalry School.
After taking part in the fighting against the German invaders in 1939, occupation, Komorowski was one of the organisers of the Polish underground in the Krakow area, with the code-name Bór. In July 1941 he became deputy commander of the Home Army (AK), and in March 1943 was appointed its commander, with the rank of Brigadier-General.
In mid 1944 as the Soviet forces advanced into central Poland, the Polish government-in-exile in London instructed Bór-Komorowski to prepare for an armed uprising in Warsaw, so that the government could return to a city liberated by Poles and not by the Soviets, and prevent the Communist take-over of Poland which Stalin was clearly preparing.
The Warsaw Rising began on 1 August 1944, and the insurgents of the AK seized control of most of central Warsaw. The Soviet Army was only 20km away but on Stalin's orders gave no assistance: Stalin described the rising as a "criminal adventure." The British were able to drop some supplies by air but could give no other assistance. The Germans employed large forces of SS and regular troops, plus auxiliary forces made up of Soviet Army deserters, who were particularly brutal, under the command of Erich von dem Bach.
After two months of fierce fighting Bór-Komorowski surrendered to the Germans on 2 October, on condition that the AK fighters would be treated as prisoners-of-war, which they were. Bór-Komorowski was imprisoned in Germany. He was liberated at the end of the war and spent the rest of his life in London, where he was active among Polish emigres. From 1947 to 1949 he was Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile, which no longer had diplomatic recognition from most Western European countries. He wrote the story of his experiences in The Secret Army (1951). He died in London aged 71.
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| Kingdom of Poland (1916 - 1918) | Jan Kucharzewski | Jan Kanty Steczkowski | Józef Świeżyński | ||
| Republic of Poland (1918 - 1939) | Ignacy Daszyński | Jędrzej Moraczewski | Ignacy Paderewski | Leopold Skulski | Władysław Grabski | Wincenty Witos | Antoni Ponikowski | Artur Śliwiński | Julian Nowak | Władysław Sikorski | Aleksander Skrzyński | Kazimierz Bartel | Józef Piłsudski | Kazimierz Świtalski | Walery Sławek | Aleksander Prystor | Janusz Jędrzejewicz | Leon Kozłowski | Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski | Felicjan Sławoj-Składkowski | ||
| Government in Exile (1939 - 1990) | Władysław Sikorski | Stanisław Mikołajczyk | Tomasz Arciszewski | Tadeusz Komorowski | Tadeusz Tomaszewski | Roman Odzierzyński | Jerzy Hryniewski | Stanisław Mackiewicz | Hugon Hanke | Antoni Pająk | Aleksander Zawisza | Zygmunt Muchniewski | Alfred Urbański | Kazimierz Sabbat | Edward Szczepanik | ||
| People's Republic of Poland (1944 - 1989) | Edward Osóbka-Morawski | Józef Cyrankiewicz | Bolesław Bierut | Piotr Jaroszewicz | Edward Babiuch | Józef Pińkowski | Wojciech Jaruzelski | Zbigniew Messner | Mieczysław Rakowski | Czesław Kiszczak | ||
| Republic of Poland (since 1989) | Tadeusz Mazowiecki | Jan Krzysztof Bielecki | Jan Olszewski | Waldemar Pawlak | Hanna Suchocka | Józef Oleksy | Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz | Jerzy Buzek | Leszek Miller | Marek Belka | ||
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