Józef Użycki (born 1 December 1932) was a Polish military officer, and communist politician. He was a general in the Polish Army and Polish General Staff of Poland from 1983 to 1990. Life He was born in the village of Kiertyn in Stryi county (now Ukraine), in the Polish Second Republic. In February 1940, he and his family were deported to Siberia to Krasnoyarsk Krai, from where he returned to the country in 1946. After returning, he lived in Gliwice, where he attended high school. He began his military service in 1950, as a podchorąży, attending Officer Infantry school Number One in Wrocław. In 1952 he was promoted to the rank of podporuchnik, after which he was sent to the commander of the school platoon, and then deputy commander of a company at the 4th Infantry Regiment in Kielce (where he served until October 1954). In 1954-1957 he studied at the General Staff Academy. After graduation, he became chief of staff of a battalion at the 33rd Mechanized Regiment in Nysa (1957-1959). In 1959-1966 he served in the Staff of the Silesian Military District, where he was an officer of the Operational Department. In 1966, he became Chief of Staff/Deputy Commander of the 10th Medium Tank Regiment in Opole. He commanded this regiment, participating in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. During the Armed Forces Inspection, the regiment commanded by him received a very good grade. In 1969, he became chief of staff/deputy commander of the 11th Dresden Armoured Division in Żagań. From 1971 to 1973, he was a student at the Military Academy of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR in Moscow. In 1973, he took command of the 11th Dresden Armoured Division. In this position, in 1974, he was promoted to a brigadier general by a resolution of the Polish Council of State. The nomination was presented in Belweder by the President of the Polish Council of State prof. Henryk Jabłoński in the presence of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers Party Edward Gierek. The division he commanded was repeatedly distinguished, including twice in one year by order of the Minister of National Defence. In 1976 he became Chief of Staff/Deputy Commander of the Pomeranian Military District in Bydgoszcz. In 1978, he was appointed commander of this military district, and in case of war commander of the 1st Army.