Aleksander Piotr Mohl

Aleksander Piotr Mohl (alt. Alexander), Count, (November 18, 1899 – June 26, 1956) was a Polish military officer, diplomat and intelligence officer.^[1]

Early life

Aleksander Piotr Mohl was born on November 18, 1899, at Wyszki, the Mohl estate in

Mohl's Prussian Baltic aristocratic background was useful to Poland in the years prior to the war in trying to bridge an increasingly difficult relationship with Germany. In those years Hermann Göring frequently visited Poland, "ostennsibly to hunt actually to reconnoiter elite sentiment".^[18] Alexander was called upon to accompany Göring on his visits.^[18]

Towards the end of 1936 Aleksander was appointed to his first assignment abroad as First Secretary of the Polish Embassy in

Before the Germans occupied Paris in 1940, most of the Polish Embassy staff, including Mohl who was embassy counselor at the time, left the city.[23]^[24]

From 1940-1943, Mohl served as head of the delegation of Poland to France at the Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal.

During the war, Mohl served as an intelligence officer for the Polish government in exile.

He is mentioned as a possible source of an intelligence leak from William J. Donovan to the Abwehr in 1942 regarding American war plans in Europe. At the time, US planning was to hold off the US invasion until arms production tilted the war in America's favor, expecting the Soviets to hold off. Mohl held an extensive discussion with Donovan at the time in Washington.^{[31][32][33][34]}

After the war

At the end of the war, Aleksander was stateless and could not return to Poland. He moved to Madrid. He tried mediating between American funds and underinvested Spanish companies.^[35] Though a good mediator, he was not a good businessman. He was very generous, loved to live life and did not count its value in a monetary sense. Always impeccably dressed, he escorted some of the well-known socialite ladies of the day such as Mrs Margaret Biddle.^[36][37] Aleksander died in Madrid on June 26, 1956, due to cancer,^[38] and was buried in the Cementerio de San Justo.

Awards and honors

• The French Legion of Honour, Commander Class;^[39]
• The Yugoslav
  Order of St Sava, Commander Class;^[39]
• The Estonian Order of the Cross of the Eagle,^[40] Commander Class,
• The Order of
  Polonia Restituta, Officer Class;^[39]
• The Silver Cross of Merit (Poland),^[39]
• 1918-1921 Polish War Medal.^[39]
• Order of the Crown (Belgium), Officer Class;^[39]
• Order of the Star of Romania, Officer Class.^[39]

Bibliography

• Łukasiewicz, Juliusz (1970). Jedrzejewicz, Waclaw (ed.). Diplomat in paris, 1936-139. Papers and memoirs of Juliusz Lukasiewicz, Ambassador of Poland. New York: Columbia University Press.
  ISBN 0231033087
  .
• Baltische Ritterschaften: Livland. Estland. Kurland. Œsel.
• Memoires, By Fabianna Godlewska, 1994, Edited by Marie-Christine and Karol Godlewski

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