Stanisław Taczak
- Birth Date:
- 08.04.1874
- Death date:
- 02.03.1960
- Length of life:
- 85
- Days since birth:
- 54821
- Years since birth:
- 150
- Days since death:
- 23445
- Years since death:
- 64
- Extra names:
- Stanisław Taczak
- Categories:
- General, Independece fighter, WWI participant
- Nationality:
- pole
- Cemetery:
- Poznań - Cmentarz Zasłużonych Wielkopolan (św. Wojciech)
Stanisław Taczak (8 April 1874, Mieszków (now in Jarocin County) – 2 March 1960, Malbork) was a Polish general. Until 8 January 1919, he was temporary commander-in-chief of the Great Poland Uprising (1918-1919).
After the Invasion of Poland in 1939, he was imprisoned in the Oflag VII-A Murnau POW camp in Germany.
Honours and awards
- Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari
- Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Cross of Independence
- Cross of Valour (twice)
- Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honour (France)
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27.12.1918 | Greater Poland Uprising began
The Greater Poland Uprising of 1918–1919, or Wielkopolska Uprising of 1918–1919 (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1918–19 roku; German: Großpolnischer Aufstand) or Posnanian War was a military insurrection of Poles in the Greater Poland region (also called by the Germans the Grand Duchy of Poznań or Provinz Posen region) against Germany. The uprising had a significant effect on the Treaty of Versailles, which granted a reconstituted Poland the area won by the Polish insurgents plus some additional territory, most of which had been part of Poland before the partitions.