Zbigniew Przybyszewski (1907–1952) was a Polish military officer and a Commander in the Polish Navy. During the early stages of World War II he served with distinction as the commanding officer of the Heliodor Laskowski's Artillery Battery No. 31 at Hel Peninsula. After the war he returned to Poland from a prisoner of war camp and resumed his service, rising to the post of CO Coastal Artillery and deputy commander of the Naval Branch of the General Staff. Arrested by Soviet authorities under false charges of espionage, he was sentenced to death in a show trial and executed.
Zbigniew Przybyszewski (1907–1952) was a Polish military officer and a Commander in the Polish Navy. During the early stages of World War II he served with distinction as the commanding officer of the Heliodor Laskowski's Artillery Battery No. 31 at Hel Peninsula. After the war he returned to Poland from a prisoner of war camp and resumed his service, rising to the post of CO Coastal Artillery and deputy commander of the Naval Branch of the General Staff. Arrested by Soviet authorities under false charges of espionage, he was sentenced to death in a show trial and executed.
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Biography He took up his first official position in the Navy Staff in Świecie, where he became the commander of a training platoon. From 1931 to 1932 he was the watch officer of the torpedo boat ORP "Krakowiak". In the meantime, as an acting watch officer, he participated in the cruise of the destroyer ORP "Wicher" to Sweden. At the beginning of 1933 he was appointed deputy commander of ORP "Krakowiak", and at the end of the year he moved to the Fleet Staff in Gdynia as a company commander. In 1934 he became an artillery officer on the submarine ORP "Wilk". In the years 1935-1936 he was at the Maritime Yachting Training Centre, initially as deputy commander, and later as commander of the unit. In 1936 he became executive officer of the torpedo boat ORP "Mazur", and from 1937 he sailed as the first artillery officer on the destroyers: ORP "Burza" and ORP "Błyskawica". At the end of 1938 he became commander of the headland battery no. 31 in the Coastal Artillery Division on Hel. During the Invasion of Poland in 1939 he led effective fire against the german training battleships "Schleswig-Holstein" and "Schlesien", scoring hits on September 25.…
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Podporucznik marynarki (Ensign) - 1930
- Porucznik marynarki (Lieutenant junior grade) - 1933
Awards and decorations
Silver Cross of Virtuti Militari (30 October 1946)
Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 3rd Class
Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (posthumously, 2011)
Medal For Participation in the Defensive War of 1939
Books and articles
Krzysztof Zajączkowski, Bohater obrony Helu. Kmdr por. Zbigniew Przybyszewski. 1907-1952, Warszawa 2011 (ISBN 978-83-89568-95-3)
Julian Czerwiński, Małgorzata Czerwińska, Maria Babnis, Alfons Jankowski, Jan Sawicki Kadry Morskie Rzeczypospolitej. Tom II. Polska Marynarka Wojenna. Część I. Korpus oficerów 1918-1947. Wyższa Szkoła Morska, Gdynia 1996 (ISBN 83-86703-50-4)
