Stanisław Krysicki

Who was Stanisław Krysicki?

Captain Stanisław Krysicki was a Polish lawyer, who served as a military judge in Scotland during World War II. Krysicki's father Alexander was a businessman, who built Jagiellonki School. In this school, Stanislav Krysicki took part in Scouting and organized summer camps. He was a leader of the Scouting Association of the Republic, and organized many divisions.

Krysicki completed his legal studies at Warsaw University, and went on to become a judge at the District Court in Płock. He sent several German Nazi spies to prison. When the Second World War started, the Germans wanted to find him for imprisoning their agents. He fled to Romania, and then to France and Scotland.

Krysicki undertook further legal studies in Dundee. He become a Second Lieutenant in the corps of Judicial Corps judicial officers, later advancing to the rank of Captain. He completed studies of administrative law in 1945 at the University of Edinburgh. After the war he worked for the Midland Bank in London. Three years later he returned to Poland, becoming an expert on structural law, and a legal adviser in Warsaw. He practiced law in his home country for another 22 years.

Stanislav Krysicki wrote in his autobiography: