# Adam Dedio

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{{Short description|Polish resistance member}}
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{{Infobox military person
|name= Adam Dedio
|birth_date= {{Birth date|df=yes|1918|12|24}}
|death_date= {{Death date and age|1947|4|14|1918|12|24|df=y}}
|birth_place= [Zakopane](/source/Zakopane), Poland
|death_place= [Gdańsk](/source/Gda%C5%84sk), Poland
|burial_place= 
|burial_label= Garrison Cemetery in Gdańsk
|nickname = 
|image = Dedio_Adam.png
|caption =Lieutenant Adam Dedio
|allegiance= Poland
|branch={{navy|POL}} Poland
|service_years= 1937–1947
|rank= 35px [Lieutenant](/source/Lieutenant)
|commands= ORP "Bystry"
|unit=
|battles= [World War II](/source/World_War_II)
|awards= 
|other_work=
}}

'''Adam Dedio''' (24 December 1918 – 14 April 1947) was a Polish [Home Army](/source/Home_Army) officer during World War II. He fought in the [battle of Kock](/source/Battle_of_Kock_(1939)) in 1939 and the [Warsaw Uprising](/source/Warsaw_Uprising) in 1944,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.1944.pl/powstancze-biogramy/adam-dedio,7836.html|title=Powstańcze Biogramy – Adam Dedio|website=1944.pl}}</ref> He was a Polish Navy officer from 1945 to 1947, who was executed after a [show trial](/source/show_trial) in 1947.

== Biography ==
Lieutenant Adam Dedio was born on 24 December 1918 in [Zakopane](/source/Zakopane) in the newly reborn Poland. He joined the [Navy Midshipmen School](/source/Polish_Naval_Academy) in 1937, evacuated with the School to [Pińsk](/source/Pinsk), fought with the [Independent Operational Group "Polesie"](/source/Independent_Operational_Group_Polesie) against the Russian [Red Army](/source/Red_Army) and then Nazi Germany Army, including the last battle of the 1939 Defensive War ([battle of Kock](/source/Battle_of_Kock_(1939))), was wounded in the battle, and was promoted to Ensign in 1939. During the occupation of Poland he joined the Home Army, was arrested by the [Gestapo](/source/Gestapo) (German: Geheime Staatspolizei, Secret State Police) was tortured for information without success; he was close to death when liberated. However, he recovered and was reunited with the [Home Army](/source/Home_Army).

After the war, Dedio enlisted in the new communist-controlled Navy and was the commanding officer of a submarine chaser (''ORP Bystry'') but was also a member of an anti-communist conspiracy. Arrested by the communist [Military Information](/source/Main_Directorate_of_Information_of_the_Polish_Army), he was heavily tortured and executed on 14 April 1947. His body was secretly buried in [Gdańsk](/source/Gda%C5%84sk), but rediscovered and reburied in a state funeral ceremony in 2018.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-02-03|title=Gdynia: Państwowy pogrzeb 9 marynarzy – ofiar zbrodni komunistycznej|url=https://www.portalmorski.pl/inne/39768-gdynia-panstwowy-pogrzeb-9-marynarzy-ofiar-zbrodni-komunistycznej|website=portalmorski.pl}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> He is a patron of the 7th Pomeranian [Territorial Defence](/source/Territorial_Defence_Force_(Poland)) Brigade in Gdańsk.<ref>[Dariusz Bugajski](/source/Dariusz_Bugajski), ''The Polish Naval Academy. In the Centenary of Regaining Access to the Baltic Sea'', Gdynia 2019, p. 32</ref>

== Military promotions ==
{|
|15px Ensign (podporucznik) ||  1939
|}

==References==
* [Dariusz R. Bugajski](/source/Dariusz_Bugajski), ''The Polish Naval Academy. In the Centenary of Regaining Access to the Baltic Sea'', Gdynia 2019, pp.&nbsp;185. {{ISBN|978-83-953887-2-9}} (POLISH NAVAL ACADEMY); {{ISBN|978-83-7591-714-7}} (REGION)
* Waldemar Kowalski, ''Adam Dedio (1918–1947). Dobry syn'', Gdańsk 2017, 64 s. + 24 s. wkł. zdj., {{ISBN|978-83-8098-109-6}} 
* ''Epitafium 169. Rzecz o Adamie Dedio „Adrianie"'', reż. I. Bartólewska, J. Marszalec, OBEP IPN, Gdańsk – Akademicka Telewizja Edukacyjna Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, Gdańsk 2007.
* www.1944.pl/powstancze-biogramy/adam-dedio,7836.html

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Category:1918 births
Category:1947 deaths
Category:Polish military personnel of World War II
Category:Polish Navy officers
Category:Polish torture victims
Category:People executed by the Polish People's Republic by firearm
Category:Home Army members

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