Józef Broel-Plater
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Nationality | Polish |
Born | Kombuļi, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Latvia) | 15 November 1890
Died | 30 June 1941 Dachau, Nazi Germany | (aged 50)
Sport | |
Sport | Bobsleigh |
Józef Jan Andrzej Joachim Broel-Plater (15 November 1890 – 30 June 1941) was a Polish bobsledder. He competed in the four-man event at the 1928 Winter Olympics.[1]
Plater volunteered for the French Army in October 1914, and fought in World War I. Afterwards he joined the Polish Army, and worked as a translator at its General Staff.[2] In January 1940, he was arrested by Nazi German authorities and imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp. He died there on 30 June 1941.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Józef Broel-Plater Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
- ^ Profile Archived 1 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine at the website of the Polish Olympic Committee
- ^ Dachau Database Record at stevemorse.org
- ^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
External links
[edit]- Józef Broel-Plater at Olympedia
- Józef Broel-Plater at the Polish Olympic Committee (archived) (in Polish)
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- 1890 births
- 1941 deaths
- People from Krāslava Municipality
- People from Dvinsky Uyezd
- 20th-century Polish nobility
- Polish male bobsledders
- Polish translators
- 20th-century translators
- Olympic bobsledders for Poland
- Bobsledders at the 1928 Winter Olympics
- French military personnel of World War I
- Polish Army officers
- Polish people who died in Dachau concentration camp
- Polish civilians killed in World War II
- European bobsleigh biography stubs
- Polish winter sports biography stubs