Polish General Staff
Polish General Staff, formally known as the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces is the highest professional body within the Polish Armed Forces. Organizationally, it is an integral part of the Ministry of [National Defence |Ministry of National Defence] and the Chief of the General Staff is the highest ranking military officer at the Ministry. It was created in 1918, and was renamed the Main Staff in 1928 before being reverted back to General Staff in 1945 by the Soviet-backed Communist government. Currently General Wiesław Kukuła holds the position of Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces.
History and structure
On 25 October 1918, a decision was made to establish the directorate of the chief of staff of the Polish Army. On 22 December 1928 the General Staff was renamed to the Main Staff. In September 1939, during the Invasion of Poland by the Wehrmacht and the Red Army, all the institutions of the Main Staff ceased to function and were transferred to joint German and Soviet control. On 8 August 1944, the Main Staff of the Polish Army was created by the Polish Committee of National Liberation and on 10 July 1945, the Provisional Government of National Unity reverted its name back to the General Staff of the Polish Army, the head of which was appointed Soviet-Polish General Vladislav Korchits. The Polish government-in-exile kept the previous name until the positions dissolution.The General Staff consists of the following command personnel and organizational units at the Ministry of National Defence :
Command personnel :
- Chief of the General Staff - Generał Wiesław Kukuła
- First Deputy Chief of the General Staff - Generał dywizji Karol Dymanowski
- Deputy Chief of Staff - Generał broni Stanisław Czosnek
- Director of the Chief of the GS's Secretariat - Col. Arkadiusz Rubajczyk
- Director of the Legal Department - Col. Joanna Klejszmit
- Director of the Coordination Center - Col. Adam Górecki
- Chief NCO - Starszy chorąży sztabowy Piotr Smuga
- Organization and Manpower Complement Directorate - Colonel Bogdan Sowa
- Intelligence and Reconnaissance Analysis Directorate - Generał brygady Mieczysław Bieniek
- Armed Forces Application Planning and Training Directorate - Generał brygady Mirosław Polakow
- Logistics Directorate - Generał brygady Mariusz Skulimowski
- Armed Forces Development Planning and Programming Directorate - Generał brygady Rafał Ostrowski
- Management and Command Directorate - Colonel Piotr Chodowiec
- Training Directorate - Generał brygady Rafał Miernik
- Material Planning Directorate - Generał brygady Krzysztof Zielski
List of chiefs of the general staff
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