Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki

January Zygmunt Skrzynecki, Jan also Boncza Skrzynecki ( born February 18, 1786 in Zebrák in Siedlce, † January 12, 1860 in Kraków ) was a Polish general.

Life

January Zygmunt Skrzynecki studied at Lviv namely mathematics, came in 1806 in the Polish army, distinguished himself repeatedly in the campaigns from 1812 to 1814 and received in 1815 as a colonel in command of a Polish infantry regiment.

At the outbreak of the Revolution November 29, 1830, he made ​​himself available to the Grand Duke and followed the same at the head of his regiment, but returned on December 3, returned to Warsaw to join the national cause, was appointed by the Generalissimo Radziwill to brigadier general and commanded in the battle of Grochów ( February 25, 1831 ) with distinction a division. After Radziwill's resignation appointed supreme commander, he devoted himself with zeal, although the necessary new organization, but delayed in the hope of an intervention of foreign powers the procedure until the end of March.

Although he then struck the army units of General Caspar von Geismar at Wawer and the main corps of General Georg Andreas von Rosen at Dębe Wielkie, failed, however, to pursue his victory. Only when the Russians sought to unite their forces, he attacked on April 8, Siedlce and the Corps of roses and PAHLEN II at Stare Iganie, but remained in the sequence again some time idle.

The unfortunate outcome of the battle of Ostroleka (May 26 ), which he had inflicted significant because he was attacking a Russian position by single attacks and not through a coordinated approach, compelled him to retreat to Warsaw. Here he operated to weaken the influence of the patriotic clubs, a reform of the government, but failed again about the opportunity to attack the Diebitch after ' death weakened by cholera enemies.

Therefore, the Reichstag sent on August 10, a commission of inquiry into the camp before Bolimow, after which he resigned the supreme command. He held since then in the partisan corps of General Rozycki on and entered on September 22 about this on the territory of the State of Krakow, from where he went to Galicia. Later he lived in Prague until 1839, he went to Belgium, where he took over the command of the army, but had to be made as general of division for disposition as a result of complaints of Russia, Austria and Prussia. Since then he has privatized a long time in Brussels and died on January 12, 1860 in Krakow.