Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski
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Bolesław Ignacy Florian Wieniawa-Długoszowski (1881 - 1942) was a Polish general and man of letters.
His Life - A Survey
- 1914 - Fought with Piłsudski's legions as his adjutant and became imprisoned with him by Austria-Hungary
- 1926 - 1929 Commanding Officer 1st Light Cavalry Regiment
- 1927 - Acting Commanding Officer 1st Cavalry Brigade
- 1929 - 1930 Acting Military Commandant of Warsaw
- 1930 - 1932 Acting General Officer Commanding 2nd Cavalry Division
- 1932 - 1938 General Officer Commanding 2nd Cavalry Division
- 1938 - 1940 Ambassador to the Kingdom of Italy
- 1939 - Nominated president of Poland by retiring President Ignacy Moscicki, but blackballed by the French Third Republic and the United Kingdom.
- 1942 - Died in New York by his own hand (or murdered by Allies, because he was loyal to Piłsudski's Party and he was Piłsudski's army ex-officer).
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| Preceded by Ignacy Mościcki |
President of the Polish Republic 1939 |
Succeeded by Władysław Raczkiewicz |
[edit] References
- Szuflada Generała Wieniawa, edited by Elżbieta Grabska and Marek Pitasz, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warsaw 1998
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