Stanisław Jankowski

Who was Stanisław Jankowski?

Stanisław Jankowski, 'Agaton' was a Polish officer and architect.

Student and assistant lecturer in architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology, Jankowski was mobilized as an officer during German invasion of Poland in 1939. He escaped after having been captured by the Soviet Union forces and joined the Polish Armed Forces in the West. He became a commando and in 1942 was parachuted into occupied Poland, where he became an expert document forger for the Polish resistance. In 1944 he took part in the Warsaw Uprising, taken prisoner by the Germans after its end, he became an aide-de-camp of the commander of the also interned Armia Krajowa leader, general Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski.

After the war he resumed his career as an architect. He took part in the reconstruction of Warsaw; many of his projects have taken him abroad.