Brigadier General Polish army. Heroic defender of Lviv. Commander of the 26th Greater Poland Lancers Regiment and the Wielkopolska Cavalry Brigade in the September 1939 campaign. Doctor of law. Before 1914, a member of the National Youth Union ("Z") and Bartosz Teams.
Born on February 22, 1891 in Lviv.
During World War I, a cavalry officer in the Austrian army. In the Polish army from November 1918; after graduating from the French Higher Military School (1922), lecturer in general tactics at WSWoj.
In 1927-39 he was successively commander of: 26th Uhlan Regiment, Pomeranian BK and Wielkopolska BK.
In September 1939, commander of the cavalry operational group in the "Poznań" army, participant in the Battle of the Bzura; then in German captivity. After returning to the country, in a state of rest. Author of historical and military works.
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Source: Small Military Encyclopaedia, ed. I, ed. Jerzy Bordziłowski, Warsaw 1967
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Entry updated: 19.11.2023/XNUMX/XNUMX
Roman Abraham died on August 26, 1976 in Warsaw. The general was buried next to his mother at the Farny Cemetery in Września.
Publications in the Polish Digital Equestrian Library:
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Publications
"Roman Abraham and the Losers" (2021) - Łukasz Koniarek
“On the Polish cavalry of the 1991th century” (XNUMX) – Cezary Leżeński, Lesław Kukawski
"Cavalry in the September Campaign 1939" (1969) - Roman Abraham
Movies
Andrzej Lohman and his world - Schronisko Skrzyczne - beginnings - part VI | MOVIE
Polish Digital Equestrian Library
CAVALRY – HORSES, WAR AND SPORTS
A series of popular monographs of cavalry regiments and units of the Second Polish Republic, prepared by Lesław Kukawski and other renowned authors based on rich literature on the subject.
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Gallery:
"Poznań" during the inspection on August 1939, XNUMX. Next to it, the commander of the Greater Poland Brigade - Brig. Roman Abraham.
Abrahamians. photo. The National Institute of the Ossolińskis.
