death_place death_date birth_place allegiance birth_date nickname article_title name
bydgoszcz , people 's republic of poland 1957 kalnica dolna , austria-hungary armia krajowa 1896 sęk , tragarz augustyn träger
 roman träger
augustyn träger

augustyn träger -lrb- born august 25 , 1896 in kalnica dolna - died , april 22 , 1957 in bydgoszcz -rrb- , codenames `` sęk '' -lrb- knot -rrb- and `` tragarz '' -lrb- moving man -rrb- , was a polish-austrian soldier during world war i and an intelligence officer in interwar and german-occupied poland .
along with his son , roman träger , he played an important role in obtaining intelligence on the german v-1 and v-2 missiles which were being tested on the island of usedom in pomerania .
he passed the information along to the polish resistance organization home army , which then in turn passed it on to the allies in london .
this led to the allied bombing of peenemünde in operation hydra in 1943 .
