Jan Ignatievich Mastalezh ( Polish: Jan Mastalerz ; May 23, 1894 -?) - Colonel of the USSR Armed Forces and the Polish People’s Army, Chief Military Prosecutor of Poland in 1944-1946.
| Jan Ignatievich Mastalezh | |
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| polish Jan Mastalerz | |
| Date of Birth | May 23, 1894 |
| Place of Birth | Warsaw , Kingdom of Poland , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | is unknown |
| Affiliation |  USSR /  Poland |
| Type of army | ground forces, military judges |
| Rank |  Colonel of the USSR Armed Forces Colonel Armed Forces |
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| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War |
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Biography
He worked as a mechanic at the Warsaw-Prague railway station in 1913-1915. After the outbreak of World War I, he was evacuated deep into Russia, worked on the railways in Pskov and Petrograd . In 1919-1939 - judge of the military courts of the Red Army. He held such positions as:
- Chairman of the Military Tribunal of the 45th Rifle Division
- Deputy Chairman of the Military Tribunal of the 6th Rifle Corps
- Member of the Collegium of the Military Tribunal of the Baltic Fleet of the Navy of the USSR
- Prosecutor of the 16th Belarusian Rifle Corps
- assistant prosecutor of the garrison of Baku.
Since 1925 - prosecutor of the military prosecutor's office of the Red Army. He graduated from a special course at the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze. The head of the prosecutor's office of the Special Railway Corps in 1938-1941. After the attack of Nazi Germany on the USSR, he was sent to the military prosecutor's office in Yaroslavl. The prosecutor of the RSFSR prosecutor’s office, E.K.Saulevich, was characterized as follows:
Mastalezh was too democratic. He did not like fuss and rarely left his office. He was even unhappy when he was called by the command, and tried to find a reason not to go to the army headquarters. Moreover, he did not like to be in military units and units [1] .
Since February 15, 1944 he served in the Polish Army. He became one of the initiators of the creation of penal battalions in the Polish Army [2] . He worked as a prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office of the Polish Army in the USSR (later the 1st Army of the Polish People's Army ). From September 2, 1944 to January 1946, he was the chief military prosecutor of Poland, and until March 1947 he was deputy chairman of the Supreme Military Court of Poland. March 21, 1947 returned to the USSR.
Notes
- ↑ Our veterans. SAULEVICH Eduard Ksaverievich (Russian)
- ↑ Polish penal battalions (Russian)
Literature
- Krzysztof Szwagrzyk. Prawnicy czasu bezprawia: sędziowie i prokuratorzy wojskowi w Polsce 1944-1956. - Kraków, Wrocław: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej - Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, Towarzystwo Naukowe Societas Vistulana, 2005 .-- ISBN 83-88385-65-8 .