Stefan Lech Sokołowski


Stefan Lech Sokołowski Gozdawa coat of arms was a Polish mathematician, climber and porucznik of artillery in Polish Land Forces. Lwów Eaglet. Doctor of mathematical sciences. Victim of Katyn massacre.

Life

Sokołowski was born 25 May 1904 in Warsaw in the family of Railway engineer and inventor, Witold Sokołowski Gozdawa coat of arms and writer Anna Maria Sokołowska born Skarbek. In 1912 with mother and sisters, he moved to Myślenice. When he have less than fifteen years old, he fought in defense of Polish Lwów. After war he study mathematics at University of Warsaw. In the interwar period he works in Ballistic Research Center in Rembertów. He earned a PhD in mathematics. In 1933 he graduated from the School Reserve Officer Cadet Artillery in Włodzimierz. First January 1935 was promoted to podporucznik. In 1939, assigned to the staff of OK I.
Spring of 1940, he was murdered by NKVD's functionaries in the Katyn forest.

Awards

He had three sisters: Maria Danuta Żelazowska, podpułkownik Grażyna Lipińska and psychologist and a Home Army soldier, Stefania Żelazowska.
In 1931 he married Cecylia Benisz. They had one daughter – Krystyna.