Marian Spychalski - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Polish Wikipedia.
  • Knight's Cross of the Virtuti Militari
  • Order of the Builders of People's Poland (1961)
  • Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta, also the Commander's Cross
  • Cross of Grunwald, 2nd and 3rd Classes
  • Order of the Banner of Labour, 1st Class
  • Partisan Cross (12 June 1946)
  • Medal for Warsaw 1939-1945
  • Medal for Odra, Nysa, the Baltic
  • Medal of Victory and Freedom 1945
  • Gold Medal "in the Service of the Armed Forces of the Homeland"
  • Gold Medal "for his contribution to national defense"
  • Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"
  • Badge "Meritorious activist ORMO"
  • Order of Lenin (USSR) (1968)
  • Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (USSR)
  • Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (Belgium)
  • Grand Cross of the Order of the White Rose (Finland)
  • Order of the Banner of Combat (Yugoslavia)
Political offices
Preceded by
Edward Ochab
Chairman of the Polish Council of State
1968–1970
Succeeded by
Józef Cyrankiewicz
Heads of state of Poland
Kingdom of Poland (1916–1918)
  • Provisional Council
  • Regency Council
Republic of Poland (1918–1939)
  • Józef Piłsudski
  • Gabriel Narutowicz
  • Maciej Rataj (acting)
  • Stanisław Wojciechowski
  • Maciej Rataj (acting)
  • Ignacy Mościcki
Government of the Republic of Poland in Exile (1939–1990)
  • Władysław Raczkiewicz
  • August Zaleski
  • Stanisław Ostrowski
  • Edward Raczyński
  • Kazimierz Sabbat
  • Ryszard Kaczorowski
People's Republic of Poland (1944–1989)
  • Bolesław Bierut
  • Aleksander Zawadzki
  • Edward Ochab
  • Marian Spychalski
  • Józef Cyrankiewicz
  • Henryk Jabłoński
  • Wojciech Jaruzelski
Republic of Poland (1990–Present)
  • Wojciech Jaruzelski
  • Lech Wałęsa
  • Aleksander Kwaśniewski
  • Lech Kaczyński
  • Bronisław Komorowski (acting)
  • Bogdan Borusewicz (acting)
  • Grzegorz Schetyna (acting)
  • Bronisław Komorowski
Chairmen of the Polish Council of State
  • Bolesław Bierut
  • Aleksander Zawadzki
  • Edward Ochab
  • Marian Spychalski
  • Józef Cyrankiewicz
  • Henryk Jabłoński
  • Wojciech Jaruzelski
Mayors of Warsaw

First Polish Republic
Ignacy Wyssogota Zakrzewski | Józef Michał Łukasiewicz | Andrzej Rafałowicz | Ignacy Wyssogota Zakrzewski | Józef Michał Łukasiewicz and Andrzej Rafałowicz
Prussian Occupation
Franz Schimmelpfennig von der Ove | Friedrich Georg Tilly
Duchy of Warsaw
Joachim Moszyński | Paweł Bieliński | Stanisław Węgrzecki
Congress Poland
Karol Woyda | Stanisław Węgrzecki | Jakub Ignacy Łaszczyński | Aleksander Graybner | Teodor Andrault de Langeron | Kazimierz Woyda | Zygmunt Wielopolski | Kalikst Witkowski | Sokrates Starynkiewicz | Mikołaj Bibikow | Wiktor Litwiński | Aleksander Miller
World War I
Zdzisław Lubomirski | Piotr Drzewiecki
Second Polish Republic
Stanisław Nowodworski | Władysław Jabłoński | Zygmunt Słomiński | Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski | Stefan Starzyński
General Government
Julian Kulski | Marceli Porowski | Helmut Otto | Oskar Rudolf Dengel | Ludwig Leist
People's Republic of Poland
Marian Spychalski | Stanisław Tołwiński | Jerzy Albrecht | Janusz Zarzycki | Zygmunt Dworakowski | Janusz Zarzycki
Jerzy Majewski | Mieczysław Dębicki | Jerzy Bolesławski
Third Polish Republic
Stanisław Wyganowski | Mieczysław Bareja | Marcin Święcicki | Paweł Piskorski | Wojciech Kozak | Lech Kaczyński | Mirosław Kochalski (acting) | Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (acting) | Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz

Marshals of Poland
  • Józef Piłsudski
  • Ferdinand Foch
  • Edward Rydz-Śmigły
  • Michał Rola-Żymierski
  • Konstanty Rokossowski
  • Marian Spychalski

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