Stanisław Jankowski
- Birth Date:
- 29.09.1911
- Death date:
- 05.03.2002
- Extra names:
- Stanisław Jankowski
- Categories:
- Architect, Member of student's corporation, Officer, Red cross member, WWII participant
- Nationality:
- pole
- Cemetery:
- Warsaw, Evangelical-Augsburg Cemetery (pl)
Stanisław Jankowski (code name: "Agaton") was an SOE agent and Polish resistance fighter during World War II and an architect who played a prominent role in the post-war reconstruction of Warsaw.
Student and assistant lecturer in architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology, Jankowski was mobilized as an officer during German invasion of Poland in 1939. He escaped from Poland after being captured by Soviet forces and joined the Polish Armed Forces in the West. He became an SOE agent (Cichociemny) and in 1942 was parachuted back into occupied Poland, where he became an expert document forger (codename "Agaton") for the Polish resistance. In 1944 he took part in the Warsaw Uprising (member of the Batalion Pięść in the Radosław Group). He was taken prisoner by the Germans. After the end of the Uprising, he became an aide-de-camp to General Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, the leader of the Polish Home Army.
After the war he resumed his career as an architect. He took part in the reconstruction of Warsaw; many of his projects took him abroad (to Iraq, Peru, Yugoslavia and Vietnam).
Honours and awards
Jankowski was the recipient of many medals and awards, military and civilian:
Virtuti Militari
Cross of Valour, twice
Order of the Banner of Labour Class II
Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Home Army Cross
three National Arts Awards
Gold Medal for Reconstruction of Warsaw
Honorary Citizen of Warsaw (1995)
Source: wikipedia.org
No places
| Relation name | Relation type | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michał Jankowski | Son | ||
| 2 |  | Tadeusz Komorowski | Commander | |
| 3 |  | Stefan Bałuk | Soldier |
01.09.1939 | Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War (Polish: Kampania wrześniowa or Wojna obronna 1939 roku) in Poland and the Poland Campaign (German: Polenfeldzug) or Fall Weiß (Case White) in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, while the Soviet invasion commenced on 17 September following the Molotov-Tōgō agreement which terminated the Russian and Japanese hostilities (Nomonhan incident) in the east on 16 September. The campaign ended on 6 October with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland.
01.08.1944 | Began the Warsaw Uprising
The Warsaw Uprising (Polish: powstanie warszawskie) was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa) to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany. The rebellion was timed to coincide with the Soviet Union's Red Army approaching the eastern suburbs of the city and the retreat of German forces.[9] However, the Soviet advance stopped short, enabling the Germans to regroup and demolish the city while defeating the Polish resistance, which fought for 63 days with little outside support. The Uprising was the largest single military effort taken by any European resistance movement during World War II.