Edward Pfeiffer


Franciszek Edward Pfeiffer, nom-de-guerre Radwan was a Polish military commander, Brigadier General of the Polish Army, commander of the Region I Śródmieście of the Home Army during the Warsaw Uprising, cavalier of the Order of Virtuti Militari
Edward Pfeiffer was born in 1895 in a middle-class family in Łódź. He also attended high school there and between 1910-1912 he helped to found the Polish Scouting Association and a secret school organization "Collegial Self-Help" whose purpose was education in the Polish language and the study of Polish history. The group also distributed books which had been banned by the Tsarist censors.

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