Stanisław Haller (born 26 April 1872, murdered in April 1940) was a Polish politician and general, and cousin of General Józef Haller de Hallenburg.
Life[]
Between 1894 and 1918 he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Among other functions, he was commandant of Fortress Kraków. In 1918 he joined the renascent Polish Army. During the Polish-Soviet War he contributed to the defeat of Budionny's army and its expulsion beyond the Bug River. In 1919-1920, 1923–25 and in May 1926 he was Chief of the Polish General Staff. After 1926 he was placed in retirement as a political opponent of the new regime headed by Józef Piłsudski.
In 1939 he was arrested by the Soviets and placed in a POW camp in Starobielsk.[1][2] Along with other Polish POWs, he was murdered by the NKVD in April 1940, the month of his sixty-eighth birthday, near Kharkov, in the Katyn Massacres.[1]
Stanisław Haller is patron of the 5th command regiment of the Kraków-based Polish 2nd Mechanized Corps.
Honours and awards[]
- Commander's Cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari; previously awarded the Silver Cross (1921)
- Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Cross of Valour - twice
- Cross of Liberty, Class I (Estonia)
- Royal Order of St. Stephen of Hungary
- Order of St. Stanislaus
Bibliography[]
- Stalisław Haller (sic!) (1926). Naród a armja (The Nation and the Army). Kraków, Księgarnia Krakowska. p. 88.
- various authors (1984). O przewrocie majowym 1926; opinie świadków i uczestników (On the May Coup d'etat; opinions of witnesses and participants). Andrzej Wierzbicki, Stanisław Haller, Jan Rzepecki. Wydawnictwa MON. p. 164. ISBN 83-11-07122-5.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.K.Zawodny Death in the Forest Notre Dame, 1962 Page 145 Cite error: Invalid
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See also[]
- Prometheism
- List of Poles
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