Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na I Tartakower ya shiga cikin sojojin Austro-Hungarian kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin jami'in ma'aikata a wurare daban-daban. Ya tafi gaban Rasha tare da sojojin gidan Vienna. Bayan yakin ya yi hijira zuwa Faransa, kuma ya zauna a birnin Paris. Kodayake Tartakower bai yi magana da yaren Poland ba, bayan Poland ta sake samun 'yancin kai a 1918 ya karɓi ɗan ƙasar Poland kuma ya zama ɗaya daga cikin fitattun jakadun girmamawa na ƙasar. Ya kasance kyaftin da kuma mai horar da 'yan wasan chess na Poland a wasanni shida na kasa da kasa, ya lashe lambar zinare ga Poland a gasar Olympics ta Hamburg
a shekara ta 1930.