Władysław Belina-Prażmowski
Władysław Zygmunt Belina-Prażmowski (3 May 1888 in Ruszkowiec – 13 October 1938 in Venice), was a Polish cavalryman, colonel and politician.
He was a member of Związek Walki Czynnej since 1909, later Związek Strzelecki. Student of Lwów Politechnic in 1919–1913.
Serving under Józef Piłsudski, he became one of the first Polish soldiers - formally under Austrian command - who entered Russian-held Polish territory during the First World War. Member of Polish Legions, organizer and commander of 1st Regiment of Polish Uhlans and later 1st Brigade of Polish Uhlans. Later he fought in the Polish-Ukrainian War (1918–1919) and Polish-Soviet War (1919–1921). In April 1919 his troops were instrumental in taking Wilno. Piłsudski would declare Belina's cavalry action a most exquisite military action carried out by Polish cavalry in this war.
From 1929 he lived in Kraków and retired from the military. In 1931-1933 he was a mayor of Kraków and from 1933 to 1937, voivode of Lwów. In 1938 he retired from public work due to worsening health; he died later that year, aged fifty.
Honours and awards
- Gold Cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari
- Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Cross of Valour - five times
- Officers' badge "Parasol"
- Order of the Cross of the Eagle, Class II (Estonia, 1935)
See also
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- Franciszek Wielopolski
- Maciej Bajer
- Filip Nereusz Lichocki
- Michał Wohlman
- Maciej Bajer
- Maciej Bajer
- Filip Nereusz Lichocki
- Dominik Drdatzki
- Józef Gollmayer
- Stanisław Kostka Zarzecki
- Józef Matecki
- Feliks Grodzicki
- Józef Walenty Krzyżanowski
- Fryderyk Swieceny
- Ignacy Paprocki
- Fryderyk Tobiaszek
- Andrzej Seidler-Wiślański
- Józef Dietl
- Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz
- Ferdynand Weigel
- Feliks Szlachtowski
- Józef Friedlein
- Juliusz Leo
- Jan Kanty Federowicz
- Zdzisław Wawrausch
- Witold Ostrowski
- Karol Rolle
- Władysław Belina-Prażmowski
- Mieczysław Kaplicki
- Bolesław Czuchajowski
- Stanisław Klimecki
- Alfred Fiderkiewicz
- Stefan Wolas
- Henryk Dobrowolski
- Marcin Waligóra]
- Tadeusz Mrugacz
- Wiktor Boniecki
- Zbigniew Skolicki
- Jerzy Pękala
- Edward Barszcz
- Józef Gajewicz
- Tadeusz Salwa
- Tadeusz Salwa
- Jerzy Rościszewski
- Jacek Woźniakowski
- Krzysztof Bachmiński
- Józef Lassota
- Andrzej Maria Gołaś
- Jacek Majchrowski
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