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Kazimierz Sosnkowski
Sosnkowski Kazimierz
General Sosnkowski in the 1930s
Nickname Baca, Godziemba, Józef
Born (1885-11-19)November 19, 1885
Died October 11, 1969(1969-10-11) (aged 83)
Place of birth Warsaw
Place of death Arundel, Quebec
Years of service 1914 - 1944
Rank Generał broni LTG
Commands held Polish Armed Forces
Battles/wars Polish-Soviet War
World War II
Other work politician

Kazimierz Sosnkowski (Warsaw, 1885–1969, Arundel, Quebec) was a Polish independence fighter, politician and Polish Army general.

Life[]

Sosnkowski served successively as founder and first commander of Związek Walki Czynnej (the Active Combat Association), chief of staff of the 1st Brigade of the Polish Legions, Polish minister of military affairs, vice-president of Poland, commander of the Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Association for Armed Struggle) resistance organization, and Inspector General of the Armed Forces (Polish Commander-in-Chief, 1943–44).

Sosnkowski, over his career, used a number of noms de guerre, including "Baca" (Polish mountaineer term for "shepherd"), "Godziemba" (the name of his herditary coat-of-arms), "Józef" (Polish for "Joseph"), "Ryszard" ("Richard"), "Szef" ("Chief").

Sosnkowski was married to Jadwiga Sosnkowska. They had five sons.

Prohibition of bacteriological weapons[]

In 1925, the Polish Permanent Representative to the League of Nations, General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, initiated the adoption of the first international instrument addressing Biological weapons of Mass Destruction – the Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of Poisonous Gases and Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.[1][2]

Honours and awards[]

See also[]

  • List of Poles

Notes[]

  1. Croddy, Eric and Wirtz, James, Weapons of Mass Destruction, An Encyclopedia of Worldwide Policy, Technology and History.
  2. Mierzejewski, Jerzy (July 2003). "General Kazimierz Sosnkowski: The Creator of the First International Prohibition of Bacteriological Weapon Usage". Federation of European Microbiological Societies. pp. 10 and 11. http://www.antibiotic.ru/files/pdf/fems/fems54.pdf. 
Herb Godziemba

Godziemba, Sosnkowski's hereditary coat-of-arms

Military offices
Preceded by
Władysław Sikorski
General Inspector of the Armed Forces
1943–1944
Succeeded by
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski
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