Stefan Wiktor Paweł Pasławski (May 25, 1885 in Warsaw - July 17, 1956 in Bangor) was a politician and brigadier general of the

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Biography

Stefan Pasławski was born on May 25, 1885, in Warsaw, to Karol and Maria née Litauer. He graduated from the 4th Gymnasium in Lviv and studied law for two years at the University of Lviv. On December 16, 1905, he was elected a member of the faculty of the Academic Reading Room in Lviv (apart from him, also Czesław Mączyński, Tadeusz Wolfenburg). He was a reserve officer of the imperial and royal army. In the period from October 1, 1909, to September 30, 1910, he did his compulsory one-year military service. In the period from July 9, 1908, to July 31, 1914, he was one of the organizers and a member of the Supreme Council of the Bartosz Troops. On August 10, 1914, he joined the Eastern Legion, and after its dissolution, the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the Polish Legions. On October 29, 1914, he was wounded during the

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. From November 11, 1915, to November 17, 1916, he was the commander of the Assembly and Transport Station for Polish legionnaires (German: Sammel- und Transportstellen für polnische Legionäre) in

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, where he organized a library "at a huge expense of work and out of his own pocket". He served in the

since 1918. Chief of Staff of the General Command of the "Lublin" District in Lublin, deputy military commander of Warsaw, commander of the Białystok Rifle Regiment, XL Infantry Brigade, divisional infantry of the 20th Infantry Division, and then of the 29th Infantry Division in

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. On May 3, 1922, he was verified in the rank of colonel with seniority from June 1, 1919, and 59th place in the corps of infantry officers. His parent unit was the 79th Infantry Regiment in Słonim. In March 1923, he became deputy commander of the Fortified Camp "Wilno". In November 1925, he was transferred to the

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and appointed commander of the 2nd Border Protection Brigade in

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. In May 1926, he was transferred to the position of commander of the 6th Border Protection Brigade in Vilnius. In June 1927, he was transferred from the Border Protection Corps to the disposal of the Minister of Military Affairs with a simultaneous transfer to the Ministry of State Treasury to the position of chief inspector of the Customs Guard. He then became the commander-in-chief of the Border Guard. On January 1, 1928, the

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promoted him to brigadier general with seniority effective January 1, 1928 and 1st place in the corps of generals. In the years 1928–1934, he commanded Corps District No. VIII in Toruń. On September 30, 1934, he was transferred to inactive status without the right to receive pay. In the period from September 29, 1934, to July 14, 1936, he was the

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of Białystok Voivodeship, and from July 14, 1936 to January 20, 1939, the voivode of

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. In June 1938, he received the title of honorary member of the Young Village Association of the Stanisławów Voivodeship. On January 20, 1939, he was appointed director of the Inspection Office in the Central Board of the

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. On April 24, 1939, he was transferred from inactive status to retired status. After the

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, he was interned in

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, in the camp in

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, and later in

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. From spring 1941 to spring 1945, he was in German captivity. From October 1942, he was a prisoner of war in

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in Dössel. In exile in

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, then in

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, from August 1951 he lived in the Polish Settlement in Penrhos (Wales). He died on July 17, 1956, in Bangor, Wales. His wife was Aleksandra Pasławska, née Judycka (d. 1944), who was the chairwoman of the District of the Polish Scouting Association in Stanisławów.

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