Florian Marciniak

Florian Marciniak

Florian Marciniak (born May 4, 1915 in Gorzyce near Czempiń ; † February 20, 1944 in the Groß-Rosen concentration camp ) was a Polish resistance fighter and first commander of the Szare Szeregi during the German occupation of Poland 1939-1945 .

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He grew up in Greater Poland . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the University of Poznan . Shortly before the outbreak of World War II , he worked as a bank clerk. Already in school he belonged to the boy scout movement . Since May 10, 1938 he was the youngest scout leader (Polish: harcmistrz - highest level of instructor in the organization) in Poland. On September 27, 1939 - shortly before the surrender of Warsaw - Florian Marciniak was appointed commander of the Szare Szeregi . In the organization he implemented the principle of "education through struggle". Under his leadership, the Gray Ranks began to oppose the German occupation in Poland. On May 6, 1943, Florian Marciniak was arrested by the Gestapo . Both a desperate attempt to escape during the transport to Poznan and the attempts at liberation by the members of the Gray Ranks were unsuccessful. Florian Marciniak was first transferred to Posen and later to the Groß-Rosen concentration camp , where he was executed on February 20, 1944. In 2006 he was posthumously awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta .

literature

• Jerzy Jabrzemski i inni: Szare Szeregi, Harcerze 1939–1945. TI Warszawa: PWN, 1988, pp. 25-27. ISBN 83-01-06821-3 (Polish).

Web links

Information from the city portal Czempin (Polish)