Stanisław Jankowski
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Stanisław Jankowski (code name: "Agaton") was an SOE agent and Polish resistance fighter during World War II, and an architect thereafter, who played a prominent role in the post-war reconstruction of Warsaw.[1]
Life
[edit]Jankowski was a student and later, assistant lecturer in architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology in the Second Polish Republic before World War II. He was mobilized as an officer during the German invasion of Poland of 1939. He was captured by the Soviets in eastern Poland but escaped and joined the Polish Armed Forces in the West. Jankowski became an SOE agent (Cichociemny) and in 1942 was parachuted back into occupied Poland, where he became an expert document forger (codename "Agaton", helped set up the Home Army's document forgery department, codenamed "Agaton section") for the Polish resistance. In 1944, he took part in the Warsaw Uprising (commander of 'Agaton Platoon', 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).
Autobiography
[edit]- Stanisław Jankowski 'Agaton' (1980). Z fałszywym Ausweisem w prawdziwej Warszawie: Wspomnienia 1939-1946. Warszawa: Biblioteka Syrenki (memoires)
Honours and awards
[edit]Jankowski was the recipient of many military and civilian medals and awards:
- 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)
Notes and references
[edit]- ^ Stanisław Jankowski "Agaton" at Powstanie-warszawskie-1944.ac.pl (in Polish)
- 1911 births
- 2002 deaths
- Artists from Warsaw
- People from Warsaw Governorate
- Warsaw University of Technology alumni
- Academic staff of the Warsaw University of Technology
- Home Army members
- Cichociemni
- Recipients of the Virtuti Militari
- Recipients of the Cross of Valour (Poland)
- Recipients of the Order of the Banner of Work
- Knights of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Recipients of the Armia Krajowa Cross
- Warsaw Uprising insurgents
- 20th-century Polish architects