10 Facts About Leonard Mociulschi

Leonard Mociulschi was born in Siminicea, Botosani County, a descendant of Polish nobility that had been naturalized Romanian citizens.

Leonard Mociulschi started his military career with the 13th Regiment in Iasi, and in 1910 he pursued his military training in Bucharest, at the Infantry Officers' School.

In 1916, at the beginning of the Romanian campaign of World War I, Leonard Mociulschi was in command of the 10th Company of the 29th Infantry Regiment, holding the rank of lieutenant.

Leonard Mociulschi participated in the Battle of Transylvania with the North Army and fought at the First Battle of Oituz in the fall of 1916.

At the beginning of July 1941, Leonard Mociulschi participated in Operation Munchen, engaging Red Army forces in Northern Bukovina, in the Cernauti area.

For 70 days, starting on 20 December 1944, Leonard Mociulschi carried out combat operations in the Javorina massif and the White Carpathians of Czechoslovakia.

Leonard Mociulschi was rehabilitated in 1964, and died in Brasov in 1979.

In Sighetu Marmatiei, the city where Leonard Mociulschi was garrisoned between 1932 and 1940, there is a statue in his memory.

Leonard Mociulschi was the commander of the Romanian troops that entered on 24 September 1944 the village of Ginta.

Under the pretext that the village was resisting the Romanian Army, Leonard Mociulschi allegedly ordered as retaliation the burning of the village.