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The Article, based on documented sources stored in the Central Military Archives in Warsaw-Rembertów, presents some of the non-military, socio-cultural aspects of the functioning garrison in Wadowice. The article also shows how the events of the army and town are linked with each other. These events are divided into several categories: national, religious, sporting, cultural, social, social assistance and social attitudes and activities of the individual and community. This presentation enables us to notice the significance and the range of activities of the people in uniforms in everyday life of a small town. It also shows their influence on stimulation of various activities of civil society.
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The non-Polish population made up almost one third of citizens of the 2nd Republic of Poland. The distribution of groups of this population, its attitude to statehood and the fulfilment of civil duties were one of the main problems of Poland in the years 1918-1939. This situation was also reflected in the military service of non-Polish soldiers. Complications resulting from this fact led to the introduction of the extraterritorial draft system in the Polish army, which means that the stationing of formations was not tied to the recruitment base of the given territory. As a result of this solution, soldiers from other territories of Poland and other nations, including Byelorussians, Czechs, Lithuanians, Germans, Tartars, Ukrainians and Jews, served also in the 12th Regiment of the Infantry of the Wadowice Land stationing in Wadowice and Kraków. Apart from its own reserve forces and other supplementary forces, the Wadowice regiment trained also, among others, a contingent for the Border Protection Corps – a formation created to defend the eastern borders of Poland and for some guard and service units. This article describes elements of the system of conscription of non-Polish recruits into the 12th Regiment of the Infantry and the intended role of individual groups in formations concerned. It contains also chapters that describe the behaviour of non-Polish soldiers and training-related and organisational complications resulting from the large numbers of these soldiers in relation to Poles.
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Wydarzenia października i listopada 1918 r., w wyniku których Polska odzyskała niepodległość, nie zaskoczyły wadowiczan i Wadowic. W tej kulminacji dążeń wolnościowych synowie Ziemi Wadowickiej rozsiani po kraju i Europie wzięli czynny udział, a nierzadko odegrali rolę wiodącą.
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The article discusses the military career of Karol Wojtyła senior - father of the Pope and today’s Saint John Paul II - based on preserved archival documents. Using primarily notes from qualification cards and lists and other documents preserved in the copy of Karol Wojtyła’s file folder in the Wojskowe Biuro Historyczne Centralne Archiwum Wojskowe (WBH CAW, en. Military Historical Office of the Central Military Archives in Warsaw), described the course of his service as a non-commissioned officer and a military official in the Austro-Hungarian army (18 years) and since 1918 in the Polish Army as a military official and officer in military administration (9 years). The information was supplemented by data published years ago by the Austrian journalist Ernst Trost based on the documents of Wojtyła senior preserved in the Vienna Kriegsarchiv. K. Wojtyła ended duty of military service as a lieutenant in 1927, retiring. The opinions of superiors about Karol Wojtyła were also presented, allowing to outline his characterological features and attitude, indicating that many of these features and behaviors had an undoubted impact on the formation and development of Karol Wojtyła junior’s personality in his youth. Thanks to the detailed presentation of the military career of K. Wojtyła, it was possible to correct some wrong informations about him, including regarding his alleged participation in the battle of Gorlice or Wojtyła’s service in the Legiony Polskie (en. Polish Legions.). A separate thread is the history of these documents from the CAW, the originals of which in 1979 Edward Gierek passed on to John Paul II during his first pilgrimage to his homeland.
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Artykuł omawia karierę wojskową Karola Wojtyły seniora – ojca papieża a dziś Świętego Jana Pawła II – w oparciu o zachowane dokumenty archiwalne. Posługując się przede wszystkim zapisami z kart i list kwalifikacyjnych oraz innych dokumentów zachowanych w kopii teczki akt Karola Wojtyły w Wojskowym Biurze Historycznym Centralnym Archiwum Wojskowym w Warszawie, opisano przebieg jego służby jako podoficera i urzędnika wojskowego w armii austrowęgierskiej (18 lat) a od 1918 służby w Wojsku Polskim jako urzędnika wojskowego i oficera administracji wojskowej (9 lat). Informacje zostały uzupełnione danymi opublikowanymi przed laty przez austriackiego dziennikarza Ernsta Trosta na podstawie dokumentów Wojtyły seniora zachowanych w wiedeńskim Kriegsarchiv. K. Wojtyła zakończył służbę wojskową w stopniu porucznika w 1927 r. przechodząc w stan spoczynku. Zaprezentowano także opinie przełożonych o Karolu Wojtyle, pozwalające zarysować jego cechy charakterologiczne i postawę, wskazując, że wiele z tych cech i zachowań miało niewątpliwy wpływ na ukształtowanie i rozwój osobowości Karola Wojtyły juniora w jego młodzieńczych latach. Dzięki szczegółowemu przedstawieniu przebiegu kariery wojskowej K. Wojtyły udało się sprostować niektóre błędne informacje o nim, m.in. dotyczące jego rzekomego udziału w bitwie pod Gorlicami czy służby Wojtyły w Legionach Polskich. Osobnym wątkiem jest historia wspomnianych dokumentów z CAW, których oryginały w 1979 r. Edward Gierek przekazał Janowi Pawłowi II podczas jego pierwszej pielgrzymki do Ojczyzny.
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The District Office of Public Security in Wadowice was one of the most important institutions of the new political power in Poland between 1945-1956 in the district of Wadowice. Although it was supposed to uphold public order and security of citizens, its officers committed a number of criminal offenses, from minor, such as theft or battery, to the strongest, such as rape or murder. Some of these crimes stemmed directly from the tasks and the nature of the service of a totalitarian regime, others were committed by the officers offstage, for personal gain, or even out of pure sense of impunity. During the first five years of the District Office at least 100 officers served and at least 10 percent of them committed one offense, but among these, some committed more than one. This indicates a defect in the process of staff recruitment and a prevalence of political criteria over substantive criteria in the process of workers selection for Office of Security. With a large rotation of Security Office personnel, such a selection system negatively affected its quality, and the lack of control and lack of punishment, sometimes even consent to illegal actions, caused the exposure of the worst tendencies and characteristic traits in the officers.
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The article collects and discusses information about students from the Wadowice Junior High School from 1866-1918 who rendered meritorious services to Poland’s regaining independence in 1918 and those who achieved the status of officers of the Polish Army. The groups of those who died in World War I and wars from 1918-1921, as well as those who died in the interwar period were regarded separately. A group of professional officers and reserve, levee en mass and inactive duty were presented. Statistical calculations indicate that the Wadowice school - through its pupils and several teachers - had a significant contribution to the reconstruction of Polish statehood after half a century of captivity. According to the findings of the author of the article, at least 200 pupils of the school, which amounts to 6%, actively participated in the independence struggles in 1914-1918, for which they were distinguished by the Cross or the Medal of Independence, established in the interwar period. From among those fighting in the Polish formations in the years 1914-1921, at least 154 were distinguished by military awards, 51 received Virtuti Militari Order and 103 - the Polish Cross of Valor. At least 393 pupils of the school (almost 12%) continued to serve in the interwar period, or belonged to the army reserve, with 382 being officers. In the battles of 1914-1921, 80 wounded students died of injuries and exhaustion.
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W działalności niepodległościowej przed wybuchem I wojny światowej oraz w walce o niepodległość Polski wzięło udział co najmniej 200 wychowanków Gimnazjum Wyższego w Wadowicach, a zatem prawie 6 % tych, których odnotowały dokumenty szkolne z lat 1866-1918. W szeregach Legionów Polskich poległo 25 spośród nich. Za walki o niepodległość oraz w obronie odrodzonej Rzeczypospolitej wadowiccy nauczyciele, uczniowie i absolwenci uzyskali łącznie 154 odznaczenia bojowe, w tym 51 orderów VM i 103 KW, oraz 199 odznaczeń niepodległościowych, w tym KNzM – 4., KN – 144 i MN – 51. Co najmniej 393 spośród wychowanków, czyli ponad 10 %, można zaliczyć do kadry sił zbrojnych odrodzonej Polski, (382. oficerów oraz 11. podoficerów i urzędników wojskowych), przy czym 85. spośród nich pełniło zawodową służbę wojskową w stopniach oficerów przez cały okres międzywojenny. Należy przy tym pamiętać, że lista byłaby większa o prawie 80. nazwisk poległych i zmarłych w okresie wojen 1914-1921. Pokazuje to, jak wielki wkład wniosła wadowicka szkoła w budowanie zrębów militarnego bezpieczeństwa odrodzonego państwa polskiego.
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Jan Antoni Władysław Hernich (1899-1920) was a native of Wadowice and a pupil of the Wadowice Secondary School, a legionnaire and later an officer of the 12th Wadowice Land Infantry Regiment. He died on August 1st, 1920 in the battle of Leszniów in Volhynia, as the only officer of this regiment born in Wadowice, the town where the regiment was formed and which later became its peaceful garrison. The battle fought by the 12th IR against the 1st Horse Army of Siemion Budionny for the rebound of Leszniów occupied by the Bolsheviks was part of the Polish Army’s operation to regain Brody and stop the Bolshevik army in its march to Lviv. The Wadowice Land Infantry Regiment played an important and glorious role in this operation, and the anniversary of beating the Bolsheviks near Leszniów was later celebrated as the 12th IR, and the figure of Jan Hernich was considered a hero of the regiment. The article recalls the fate of a young hero – a contemporary Wadowician completely unknown – who as a young boy engaged in the struggle for Polish independence, and brie y describes the four-day struggle of the regiment between Beresteczko and Brody. There is also a memoir of one of Jan Hernich’s colleagues, who described the death of his friend in 1924 in the regiment’s commemorative publication. The author of the article, on the example of the losses of the 12th IR in the battle of Leszniów, also pointed out the contradictions in the records concerning the regiment’s war losses given in various sources and publications.
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The article discusses selected issues concerning mobilisation of the Polish Army of the Second Polish Republic, with special recognition to the role of the Wadowice garrison and the participation of the residents of the region in those plans. Among other issues, the differences in the regional impact of individual departments of the armed forces operating in Wadowice as well as the diversity in trainings for the needs of various types of military and paramilitary services were described. Wadowice was an infantry garrison, but in terms of preparation, the cavalry as well as groups of women for educational services and groups of men for sanitation services were trained here. In the above mentioned areas the trainings conducted by Wadowice garrison involved residents of the Wadowice district, Myslenice district and shortly existing Makow and Oswiecim districts. In terms of administration and mobilisation of reserves, District Draft Office (Powiatowa Komenda Uzupelnień) later Wadowice Region Draft Office (Komenda Rejonu Uzupelnień Wadowice) involved the area of Wadowice district and Chrzanow district. The article indicates the role, which for the garrison of Wadowice was envisaged in further mobilisation plans created in the period 1920-1939. The article further indicates additional burdens that increased the mobilisation duties for the 12 Infantry Regiment in being a part of an implemented plan during the 30s program of modernisation and expansion of the armed forces. Against the background of the so-called mobilisation network (as of January 1939) the article discusses formations to which inhabitants of district Wadowice were mobilised most often in August and September 1939. Based on an example of court documents relating to the soldiers fallen(killed) or missing in the campaign the elements supporting evidence for the use of the above mentioned mobilisation network were pointed out. There is also an indication that the likelihood that in the last months before the outbreak of World War II, changes to this network had been made, as a result of which the further formations were replenished by larger groups of reservists from the area of operation of Wadowice Region Draft Office (KRU Wadowice).
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The events of the end of October and the beginning of November of 1918, when Poland regained its independence have yet to be thoroughly researched. The most vital political documents are known, as well as the actions of the most important figures and some of the activities of the larger communities, but much remains to be discovered about the course of local events. An article based on the available archival materials and accounts describe the takeover by Poles of military control of Wadowice and its environs, as well as the creation of the first units of the Polish Armed Forces and the structure of military administration in the area. Wadowice was one of the first cities of that era of Galicia that was freed from Austro-Hungarian Rule. The article recalls the great patriotic activity of the communities of Wadowice in that time, and also provides much new information about the people who took active part, as well as details of many events.
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