Stanisław Haller de Hallenburg

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Stanisław Haller
Stanisław Haller

Stanisław Haller (born 26 April 1872, murdered in April 1940) was a Polish politician and general, and cousin of General Józef Haller de Hallenburg.

Between 1894 and 1918 he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Among other 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 and placed in a POW camp in Starobielsk. Along with other Polish POWs, he was murdered by the NKVD in April 1940 near Kharkov, in the Katyn Massacres.

Stanisław Haller is patron of the 5th command regiment of the Kraków-based Polish 2nd Mechanized Corps.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Stalisław Haller (sic!) (1926). Naród a armja (The Nation and the Army). Kraków, Księgarnia Krakowska, 88. 
Haller coat of arms
Haller coat of arms
  • various authors (1984). O przewrocie majowym 1926; opinie świadków i uczestników (On the May Coup d'etat; opinions of witnesses and participants), Andrzej Wierzbicki, Stanisław Haller, Jan Rzepecki, Wydawnictwa MON, 164. ISBN 8311071225.