
Wilhelm Lawicz-Liszka (9 November 1893 – 16 February 1968) was a Polish Army general who commanded a division during the German invasion of Poland in 1939.
Biography[]
Wilhelm Lawicz-Liszka was born in Krakow, Austria-Hungary in 1893, and he served in the Polish Legion during World War I, before fighting alongside the Polish II Corps in Russia at the end of the war. Lawicz-Liszka went on to serve in the Polish Army during the Polish-Soviet War, rising in the ranks during the Interwar period. In 1939, he led the 20th Infantry Division against the German Wehrmacht at the Battle of Mlawa amid the Invasion of Poland, and he spent the rest of World War II as a German prisoner-of-war. On the war's end, he went into exile in London, England, where he died in 1968.