Boleslaw Wieniawa-Dlugoszowski

Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski (1881 - 1942) was a Polish General and man of letters.

His Life - A Survey

• 1914 - Fought with Pilsudski's legions as his adjutant and became imprisoned with him by the Austrians
• 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 Italy
• 1939 - Nominated president of Poland by retiring President Ignacy Moscicki, but blackballed by the French
• 1942 - Died in New York by his own hand.

References

• Szuflada Generała Wieniawa, edited by Elżbieta Grabska and Marek Pitasz, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warsaw 1998