Przypadek dezercji dowódcy oddziału radiotelegraficznego w I Korpusie Polskim w Rosji Zygmunta Włodzimierza Tarły-Mazińskiego

Abstract

Włodzimierz Zygmunt Tarło-Maziński was the first commander of the radiotelegraphy unit of the Polish First Corps. He was a graduate of engineering courses at the Pavel Military School and the Officer Electrotechnical School of Electrotechnology in Petersburg (1915). He held the following positions: headmaster of the school in the Russian army’s radiotelegraphy units, lecturer of electrical and radio engineering at officer courses at the Western Front staff, and corps commander of the radiotelegraphy unit. In 1917 he was appointed military radioengineer. At that time he published textbooks in Russian: Records on Radiotelegraphy (1915) and Elementary Radiotelegraphy (1917), which were later published in Polish as Elementary Radiotelegraphy and Radiotelephony with a Brief Course in Electrical Engineering (Elementarna radiotelegrafia i radiotelefonia z pobieżnym kursem elektrotechniki, 1917) and Principles of Radiotelegraphy (Zasady radiotelegrafii, 1919). These were the first Polish publications on military radiotelegraphy. In the autumn of 1917, he became a member of the Polish Armed Forces that were formed in Russia, where as second lieutenant he became the first commander of the radiotelegraphy unit and the commander of the radiotelegraphy school at the Polish First Corps staff. The article provides a behind-the-scenes description of his insubordination to the orders of the commander of the Polish First Corps, basing on the archives of the Independent Radiotelegraphy Group and the Officer’s Adjudication Court.