Career
Stanisław Haller was murdered in the Katyn massacre. Between 1894 and 1918 Haller served in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Among other military functions, he was commandant of Fortress KrakóWest
In 1918 he joined the renascent Polish Army.
During the Polish-Soviet War he contributed to the defeat of Budionny"s army and its expulsion beyond the Bug River. In 1919-1920, 1923-1925 and in May 1926 he was Chief of the Polish General Staff.
After 1926 he was placed in retirement as a political opponent of the new regime headed by Józef Piłsudski. Katyn In 1939 he was arrested by the Soviets and placed in a Prisoner Of War camp in Starobielsk.
Along with other Polish POWs, he was murdered by the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs in April 1940, the month of his sixty-eighth birthday, near Kharkov, in the Katyn Massacres.
Among the Katyn victims were 14 Polish generals including Leon Billewicz, Bronisław Bohatyrewicz, Xawery Czernicki (admiral), Aleksander Kowalewski, Henryk Minkiewicz, Kazimierz Orlik-Łukoski, Konstanty Plisowski, Rudolf Prich (murdered in Lwow), Franciszek Sikorski, Leonard Skierski, Piotr Skuratowicz, Mieczysław Smorawiński and Alojzy Wir-Konas (promoted posthumously). Stanisław Haller is patron of the 5th command regiment of the Krakow-based Polish 2nd Mechanized Corps.