Stanisław Haller | |
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Chief of the Polish General Staff | |
In office 12 May 1926 – 15 May 1926 | |
Preceded by | Edmund Kessler |
Succeeded by | Stanisław Burhardt-Bukacki |
Personal details | |
Born | Polanka Hallera, Austria-Hungary | 26 April 1872
Died | April 1940 (67-68) Kharkov, Soviet Union |
Resting place | Kharkov Polish War Cemetery |
Citizenship | Polish |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Second Polish Republic |
Branch/service |
Polish Legions Polish Armed Forces |
Years of service | 1912–1939 |
Rank | Divisional general |
Battles/wars |
First World War Polish–Soviet War Invasion of Poland |
Stanisław Haller de Hallenburg (26 April 1872 – April 1940) was a Polish politician and general who was murdered in the Katyn massacre. He was the cousin of General Józef Haller von Hallenburg.
Between 1894 and 1918 Haller served in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Among other military 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 after their attack on Poland and placed in a POW camp in Starobielsk. [1] [2] Along with other Polish POWs, he was murdered by the NKVD in April 1940, just before his sixty-eighth birthday, in Piatykhatky near Kharkov, in what is collectively called the Katyn Massacre. [3]
He is buried at the Polish War Cemetery in Kharkov.
Stanisław Haller is patron of the 5th command regiment of the Kraków-based Polish 2nd Mechanized Corps.
Among the victims of the Katyn Massacre were 14 Polish military leaders, including Leon Billewicz, Bronisław Bohatyrewicz, Xawery Czernicki, Henryk Minkiewicz, Kazimierz Orlik-Łukoski, Konstanty Plisowski, Rudolf Prich (murdered in Lwow), Franciszek Sikorski, Leonard Skierski, Piotr Skuratowicz, Mieczysław Smorawiński, and Alojzy Wir-Konas (promoted posthumously). [4]
Stanisław Haller | |
---|---|
Chief of the Polish General Staff | |
In office 12 May 1926 – 15 May 1926 | |
Preceded by | Edmund Kessler |
Succeeded by | Stanisław Burhardt-Bukacki |
Personal details | |
Born | Polanka Hallera, Austria-Hungary | 26 April 1872
Died | April 1940 (67-68) Kharkov, Soviet Union |
Resting place | Kharkov Polish War Cemetery |
Citizenship | Polish |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Second Polish Republic |
Branch/service |
Polish Legions Polish Armed Forces |
Years of service | 1912–1939 |
Rank | Divisional general |
Battles/wars |
First World War Polish–Soviet War Invasion of Poland |
Stanisław Haller de Hallenburg (26 April 1872 – April 1940) was a Polish politician and general who was murdered in the Katyn massacre. He was the cousin of General Józef Haller von Hallenburg.
Between 1894 and 1918 Haller served in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Among other military 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 after their attack on Poland and placed in a POW camp in Starobielsk. [1] [2] Along with other Polish POWs, he was murdered by the NKVD in April 1940, just before his sixty-eighth birthday, in Piatykhatky near Kharkov, in what is collectively called the Katyn Massacre. [3]
He is buried at the Polish War Cemetery in Kharkov.
Stanisław Haller is patron of the 5th command regiment of the Kraków-based Polish 2nd Mechanized Corps.
Among the victims of the Katyn Massacre were 14 Polish military leaders, including Leon Billewicz, Bronisław Bohatyrewicz, Xawery Czernicki, Henryk Minkiewicz, Kazimierz Orlik-Łukoski, Konstanty Plisowski, Rudolf Prich (murdered in Lwow), Franciszek Sikorski, Leonard Skierski, Piotr Skuratowicz, Mieczysław Smorawiński, and Alojzy Wir-Konas (promoted posthumously). [4]