Zygmunt Berling

Zygmunt Henryk Berling ( born August 27, 1896 in Limanowa, † July 11, 1980 in Warsaw) was a Polish general and politician.

He served from 1914 to 1917 in the Polish Legions, from 1918 in the Polish Army. In September 1939 he was retired and stayed at his home in Wilno, where he was arrested after the Soviet invasion and was taken over Starobilsk to Moscow. The internment lasted until the release of all surviving soldiers to the Sikorski - Maisky Agreement in 1941.

Added to the staff of the new Polish Army of General Władysław Anders, he deserted in 1942 to the Soviet side, and a year later was appointed by Stalin to the commander of the 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division and promoted to General. On July 22, 1944 he was appointed head of the new Polish army was transferred. During the Warsaw Uprising he tried, allegedly without consultation with the Soviet leadership to get the warring Poland in the capital to help. In October 1944, he had the supreme command issued again rejected the proffered function of the Polish Military Representation in Moscow and was then forcibly sent to the Moscow Military Academy.

In 1947 he returned to Poland and was promoted a year later to head the new General Staff Academy in Warsaw ( Akademia Sztabu Generalnego ) until he retired in 1953. Between 1953 and 1970 he held various political functions in the agriculture and forestry ministry. It was not until 1963 he joined the Polish United Workers' Party ( PZPR ).

After the political changes of 1989 were published posthumously under the title Wspomnienia his memories.

Works

• Wspomnienia, Polski Dom Wydawniczy, Warszawa 1 - Z Tagrów do Andersa, 1990, ISBN 83-7043-136-4
• 2 - Przeciw Republice 17, 1991, ISBN 83-7043-144-5
• 3 - Wolnosc na Przetarg, 1991, ISBN 83-7043-152-6