Polish General Staff

Polish General Staff
Memorial badge of the Polish General Staff (Second Republic)

Sztab Generalny Wojska Polskiego (Polish General Staff also "General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces"; is Poland's highest unit of military organization. It was created in 1918, and for a time bore the name "Sztab Główny" ("Main Staff").

Currently the position of Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces (in Polish, Szef Sztabu Generalnego Wojska Polskiego) is General Mieczysław Cieniuch.

Chiefs

Second Polish Republic

  • gen. ppor. Tadeusz Rozwadowski (28 October - 15 November 1918)
  • gen. broni Stanisław Szeptycki (16 November 1918 - 7 February 1919)
  • gen. ppor. Stanisław Haller (8 February 1919 - 22 July 1920)
  • gen. por. Tadeusz Rozwadowski (22 July 1920 - 1 April 1921)
  • gen. dyw. Władysław Sikorski (1 April 1921 - 16 December 1922)
  • marszałek Polski Józef Piłsudski (17 December 1922 - 9 June 1923)
  • gen. dyw. Stanisław Haller (9 June 1923 - 16 December 1925)
  • gen. bryg. Edmund Kessler (16 December 1925 - 12 May 1926)
  • gen. dyw. Stanisław Haller (12 May 1926 - 15 May 1926)
  • gen. bryg. Stanisław Burhardt-Bukacki (17 May 1926 - 28 June 1926)
  • gen. bryg. Tadeusz Piskor (28 June 1926 - 22 December 1928)
  • gen. bryg. Tadeusz Piskor (22 December 1928 - 5 December 1931)
  • gen bryg. Janusz Gąsiorowski (3 December 1931 - 7 June 1935)
  • gen. bryg. Wacław Stachiewicz (7 June 1935 - 18 September 1939)

Polish government-in-exile

  • płk Aleksander Kędzior (7 November 1939 - 5 June 1940)
  • gen. bryg. Tadeusz Klimecki (czerwiec 1940 - 4 July 1943
  • gen. dyw. Stanisław Kopański (21 July 1943 - 3 September 1946)

Republic of Poland / People's Republic of Poland (People's Poland / Polska Ludowa)

  • gen. broni Władysław Korczyc (1 January 1945 - 18 January 1954)
  • cz.p.o. gen. dyw. Borys Pigarewicz (1952–1954)
  • gen. broni Jerzy Bordziłowski (23 March 1954 - 6 February 1965)
  • gen. dyw. Wojciech Jaruzelski (6 January 1965 - 10 April 1968)
  • gen. dyw. Bolesław Chocha (11 April 1968 - 11 January 1973)
  • gen. broni Florian Siwicki (12 January 1973 - 21 November 1983)
  • gen. broni Józef Użycki (22 November 1983 - 24 September 1990)

Third Polish Republic

  • gen. dyw. Zdzisław Stelmaszuk (25 September 1990 - 4 August 1992)
  • gen. broni Tadeusz Wilecki (5 August 1992 - 9 March 1997)
  • gen. broni Henryk Szumski (10 March 1997 - 29 September 2000)
  • gen. Czesław Piątas (30 September 2000 - 31 January 2006)
  • p.o. gen. broni Mieczysław Cieniuch (31 January 2006 - 27 February 2006)
  • gen. Franciszek Gągor (27 February 2006 - 10 April 2010)
  • p.o. gen. broni Mieczysław Stachowiak (10 April 2010 - 7 May 2010)
  • gen. Mieczysław Cieniuch (7 May 2010 – present)

See also

External links

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