Stanisław Grzmot-Skotnicki
| Stanisław Grzmot-Skotnicki | |
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January 13, 1894 Skotniki, Congress Poland, Russian Empire |
| Died | September 19, 1939 Tułowice, Poland |
| Allegiance |
 Poland
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| Service/branch |
Polish Army
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| Years of service | 1914-1939 |
| Rank | Major General |
| Battles/wars | Great War, Polish-Ukrainian War, Polish-Bolshevik War, Invasion of Poland |
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Stanisław Grzmot-Skotnicki ([staˈniswaf ˈɡʐmɔt skɔtˈnit͡ski]; 1894–1939) was a Polish military commander and a general of the Polish Army. During the Invasion of Poland of 1939 he commanded the Czersk Operational Group and was among the highest ranking Polish officers to be killed in action in that war.
Stanisław Skotnicki was born January 13, 1894 in the village of Skotniki (being the root of his surname which literally means lord of Skotniki), to a family of Polish nobility (bearing the coat-of-arms of Clan Bogoria of which the lords of Skotniki are among the most ancient and prominent branches). After graduating from a gymnasium in Radom, he was sent to a Trade Academy in Sankt Gallen in Switzerland. There he formed a unit of the Związek Strzelecki and started organizing military training for the Polish emigrees and students. It was then he adopted his nom de guerre of Grzmot (Polish language for thunder), which later formed a part of his surname. Upon the outbreak of the Great War he returned to Poland, to Austro-Hungarian Galicia, where he volunteered for the service in the Polish Legions. In August 1914 he became the member of The Seven Lancers of Belina under Władysław Belina-Prażmowski, the first detachment of the Polish Cavalry to cross the border with Privislinsky Krai. Later in the war he served in the cavalry regiment of the Legions, in which he commanded a platoon and then a squadron. After the Oath Crisis of 1917 he was interned in a camp in Beniaminów.
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