How to Pronounce Władysław Belina-Prażmowski
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May 03, 1888 Ruszkowiec, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland Died on 13 Oct 1938 (aged 50)
Polish politician and Army officer
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About Wadysaw Belina Pramowski
- Wladyslaw Zygmunt Belina-Prazmowski (3 May 1888 in Ruszkowiec – 13 October 1938 in Venice), was a Polish cavalryman, colonel and politician. He was a member of Zwiazek Walki Czynnej since 1909, later Zwiazek Strzelecki.
- Student of Lwów Politechnic in 1919-1913. Serving under Józef Pilsudski, 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.
- Pilsudski 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.
