Prich was born in 1881 in
Opava,
Austrian Silesia. During his youth, he joined the
Austro-Hungarian Army, where he served with distinction during the
Great War. In April 1919, he returned to Poland and joined the Polish Army. During the opening stages of the
Polish-Bolshevik War between December 1919 and April 1920, he served as the head of the
1st Detachment of the General Staff, responsible for organization and mobilization of forces. Between April 1920 and 1922 in the Polish ministry of military affairs, after the
Peace of Riga he remained in the army. In 1923, after a year of service at the post of commanding officer of the
26th Infantry Division, he was promoted to the rank of
generał brygady. After the
May Coup d'État of 1926, he was sent to the Centre for Artillery Training in
Toruń, where he served as one of the professors and a specialist in
anti-air artillery. Promoted to the rank of
generał dywizji in 1928, he retired from active service in 1935. ==The 1939 invasion of Poland==