General Staff of the Polish Army

General Staff of the Polish Army

General Staff of the Polish Army ( _pl. Sztab Generalny Wojska Polskiego) was created in 1918. It is the chief organizational unit of military of Poland.

Current Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army (Polish: "szef Sztabu Generalnego Wojska Polskiego") is general Franciszek Gągor.

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)

People's Republic of Poland
* 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)

ee also

*General Inspector of the Armed Forces

External links

*pl icon [http://www.sgwp.wp.mil.pl/index.php Homepage]


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