Stefan Frankowski
- Birth Date:
- 03.04.1887
- Death date:
- 25.09.1940
- Length of life:
- 53
- Days since birth:
- 50066
- Years since birth:
- 137
- Days since death:
- 30531
- Years since death:
- 83
- Extra names:
- Stefan Frankowski
- Categories:
- Officer, WWI participant, WWII participant
- Nationality:
- pole
- Cemetery:
- cemetary
Stefan Frankowski (3 April 1887 in Volhynia - 25 September 1940 in Bielawa) was a Polish commodore, posthumously promoted to counteradmiral. An officer of surface naval ships, from 1908 to 1917 he served in the Russian Imperial Navy Navy and participated in the First World War. Later he joined the Polish Navy and commanded a squadron of torpedo boats, was the commander of the Polish Navy NCO School, and was chief of Director Staff of Polish Navy. During the Polish Defensive War of 1939 he was a commander of Naval Coast Defence. Taken prisoner of war by the Germans, he died in captivity in 1940.
Honours and awards
- Gold Cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari (posthumously)
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1930)
- Cross of Valour
- Gold Cross of Merit
- Officer of the Legion of Honour (France)
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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.