Franciszek GÄ…gor
Franciszek Gagor ( born September 8, 1951 in Koniuszowa, Poland, † 10 April 2010 Smolensk, Russia) was from 2006 until his death in Chief of the Polish Armed Forces.
Life and career
Gagor studied at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and finished this in 1983 with a master. At this he was followed by a postgraduate course at the University of Breslau, which he finished in 1984.
1973 ended Gagor the officer school in Breslau. 1976 to 1977 he was employed in the United Nations Emergency Force II in Egypt. In 1977 he was in the scope of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force ( UNDOF ), head of the Polish logistics area ( Pollog ). The following year he became a lecturer at a school for Mechanized Infantry and remained so until 1988. At the same time he was reinstated to 1986 in 1980 and 1985 as part of the UNDOF, this time as commander of the Polish forces. 1988-1990 Gagor was an officer for the combat training training. 1989 to 1990 he was again, as deputy logistics officer, used for UNDOF. In the years 1991-1992 Gagor was responsible for the management of peacekeeping inserts of the Ministry of Defence. In 1991 he became deputy commander of the Polish forces in the Gulf and in the course of the Second Gulf War was Franciszek Gagor deputy sector commander in Kuwait as part of the United Nations Iraq - Kuwait Observation Mission ( UNIKOM ) stationed troops. From 1992 he was back in the Ministry of Defence, as head of peacekeeping operations. 1994-1996 was Gagor deputy director for operations abroad and Head of the Department of Arms Control and Peacekeeping. As director for operations abroad, he was employed from 1996 to 1999. In 1997 he was promoted to brigadier general. 1998 doctorate Franciszek Gagor work with International peace operations, as well as their place in the current defense doctrine of the Republic of Poland. He became the head of military operations in the Polish General Staff in 1999. In 2003 he became assistant to the UN Secretary-General in Iraq for UNIKOM. 2003 to 2004 he was then Assistant Secretary General again act within the UNDOF. From 2004 to 2006 he was a representative of Poland in NATO and the European Union. On 27 February 2006, he was promoted to lieutenant general (general broni ) and Chief of General Staff of the Polish Army. On 3 May 2006, the promotion was a general.
On April 10, 2010 Gagor belonged to a Polish delegation headed by President Lech Kaczyński, who was to travel on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the Katyn massacre to the memorial to Russia. However, in a plane crash of the delegation near the military airfield Smolensk - North he came together with other high-ranking representatives of Poland died.
Franciszek Gagor was married and had two children.
Awards
- Knights, Officer and posthumously Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta ( Orderu Odrodzenia Polski )
- Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland in Gold
- Commander of the Legion of Merit
- Member of the French Legion of Honour