Jerzy Tumaniszwili, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jerzy Tumaniszwili

Polish naval admiral

Date of Birth: 21-Jun-1916

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 09-Dec-2010

Profession: naval officer

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Jerzy Tumaniszwili

  • Jerzy Tumaniszwili (Georgian: ?????? ???????????, Giorgi Tumanishvili) (June 21, 1916 – December 9, 2010) was a Polish naval commander of a Georgian aristocratic descent.
  • A World War II veteran and later an émigré to the United States, he received the rank of rear-admiral from the government of Poland in 2008. Jerzy Tumaniszwili was born in Moscow in 1916.
  • His father Prince Paul Toumanoff (Tumanishvili, 1872–1935) served as Marshal of Nobility of Georgia in the last years of the Russian Empire.
  • His mother, Jadwiga Szyszko, was a daughter of the Polish general Cezary Szyszko, a commander in Zhytomyr.
  • After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the family moved to Georgia, which they fled, following the country's takeover by the Bolsheviks in 1921.
  • The family eventually settled in Warsaw, where Paul Toumanoff headed a local Georgian émigré committee from 1924 to 1930. In 1935, Jerzy Tumaniszwili, through the recommendation of General Alexander Zakariadze, a Georgian in the Polish service, was enrolled in the Polish Naval Academy.
  • In 1938 Tumaniszwili received the rank of second lieutenant of the Polish navy.
  • During World War II, he served as an artillery officer on the ORP Burza, OF Ouragan, ORP Krakowiak, and ORP Piorun.
  • He participated in various combat missions, including the Norwegian Campaign, the Battle at Calais, the Atlantic Convoys, the actions in the Bay of Biscay, and the D-Day operations.
  • He was wounded in combat in 1942 during battle with enemy torpedo boats.
  • In 1944, Tumaniszwili was promoted to captain of the Polish navy.In 1950, Tumaniszwili left Communist Poland for the United States, where he ran an enterprise, producing disposable needles.
  • He also wrote for the local Polish press and participated in the émigré Polish organizations, including the New York City-based Józef Pilsudski Institute of America.
  • In 1990, the president of Poland in exile, Ryszard Kaczorowski, gave him a promotion to lieutenant commander.
  • In 2008 he received the honorary rank of rear admiral from President Lech Kaczynski.
  • He was decorated with Virtuti Militari, Polonia Restituta and other orders.
  • Tumaniszwili died at age 93 in Florida in 2010.

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