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About Generał Władysław Langner
Władysław Aleksander Langner ps. „Złom” (ur. 18 czerwca 1896 w Jaworowie, zm. 28 września 1972 w Newcastle upon Tyne w Wielkiej Brytanii) – generał brygady Wojska Polskiego.
Władysław Langner (1896 - 1972) A member of the Polish Shooting Teams, a soldier of the Polish Legions, general of the Polish Army, defender of Lviv in September 1939.
Władysław Langner was born on June 18, 1896 in Jaworów near Lviv. He attended junior high school in Złoczów and Tarnów. In his youth he belonged to the organization "Zarzewie" and Polish Shooting Teams. In Tarnów he was the deputy president of the Polish Shooting Team No. XIV and the commander of the personnel company in Tarnów PDS. Under his command, on August 4, 1914, Tarnów set off to Kraków for Oleandry, the first branch of 43 "teammates", which was part of the 1st personnel company of the Józef Piłsudski Legions.
In October 1914 he was promoted to second lieutenant, and in 1917, after the oath crisis, as a subject of the emperor he was conscripted into the Austrian army and fought on the Italian front. During the war he also passed the high school diploma and graduated from the reserve officers school.
From November 1918, he was a soldier of the Polish Army and deputy commander of the 57th Infantry Regiment of the Tarnów Land. Then he commanded a battalion in the 5th Infantry Regiment of Legions, and later in the 1st Infantry Regiment of Legions. In June 1920, as a lieutenant colonel, he took command of the 167th Infantry Regiment.
During the Polish-Bolshevik war he fought on the Lithuanian-Belarusian front and in Latvia. He distinguished himself during the capture of Vilnius in April 1919.
In 1921 he completed the course of senior commanders at the command of the General District in Poznań, and two years later the course of regiment commanders in Rembertów.
In 1923-1927 he commanded the 40th Infantry Regiment in Lviv. On December 1, 1924, he was promoted by the President of the Republic of Poland Stanisław Wojciechowski to the rank of colonel. From April 1927 to November of the following year, he commanded a division infantry division of the 12th Infantry Division in Ternopil.
In the years 1928-1934 he served in Warsaw. He was, among others deputy minister of military affairs and head of the Army Administration.
By decision of President Ignacy Mościcki, on December 21, 1932, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General. From August 1934 he commanded the District of Corps No. IV in Łódź, and from 1938 the District of Corps No. VI in Lviv. At that time he was also the chairman of the Lviv District of the Polish Scouting Association.
During the September 1939 campaign, he commanded the defense of Lviv. From 12 to 22 September he defended the city against Germany, from 19 September Lviv was surrounded by Germans and Soviet forces. Seeing no possibility of leaving the city and breaking through to the Polish-Hungarian border, he capitulated on 22 September before the Red Army, ordering to lay down his arms and leave Lviv. The terms of surrender stipulated, among others a guarantee of personal freedom for Polish officers. These guarantees have been broken. Officers defending Lviv were captured by the Soviets and then shot.
After surrendering he was in Moscow, on October 5, 1939 he was allowed to return to Lviv, at the end of November 1939 he managed to get to Romania and from there to France. From October 1940 he was in Great Britain. He commanded the 3rd Rifle Personnel Brigade in the composition of the First Corps, then he was the commander of the "Angus" Defense Section, and from August 1941 the School Brigade. From August 1943 to November 1945 he served in the Staff of the Army Training Inspector in England, from November 1945 he was at the disposal of the Chief of Staff in London.
After the war, he remained in exile. On November 11, 1964, President August Zaleski was promoted to division general. He died in Newcastle, UK, on September 28, 1972. He was buried at the All Saints Cemetery. Władysław Langner was awarded, among others, the Order of Virtuti Militari, classes IV and V, the Cross of Independence, the Order of Polonia Restituta, class IV, four times the Cross of Valor and the Golden Cross of Merit.
General Langner's farewell order to the defenders of Lviv: For 10 days the crew of the city of Lviv successfully repelled German attacks. Lviv defense soldiers wrote a beautiful page of the history of wars, defying the great technical advantage of the enemy, without sparing blood and life. When now, on orders, the soldiers of defense - are leaving the position, they need to know that we do not give up the fight to the Germans, that we resisted them, that we give way to the army of the Soviets, which we did not fight and with which we were not ordered to fight. Giving way - we save Lviv from complete destruction and we keep you soldiers for further work in the homeland and for the homeland.
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Generał Władysław Langner's Timeline
| 1896 |
June 18, 1896
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Yavoriv, Yavorivs'kyi district, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
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| 1924 |
March 3, 1924
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| 1972 |
September 28, 1972
Age 76
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Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
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