The legendary "Hubal" on the postage stamp
On Wednesday, June 22 this year. Poczta Polska introduced the emission stamp "125. Anniversary of the birth of Henryk Dobrzański pseud. Hubal. " Value in a circulation of 168 thousand The pieces went to the hands of clients and philatelists exactly on the anniversary of the birth of the legendary commander from Kielce.
The latest philatelic emission of Poczta Polska honors and commemorates the figure of Henryk Dobrzański pseud. "Hubal" - a major of the Polish Army, a titled athlete, the last Polish "Zagończyk", commander of the Polish Army separated unit during World War II.
The stamp has an artistically colored portrait photo of the heroic officer. Poczta Polska also published, in a limited version, the FDC envelope, i.e. the envelope of the first day of circulation. It presents the archival photograph of Major from 1940, surrounded by a group of soldiers of the Polish Army separated unit.
"There was no order of surrender ... You went through hell ... Behind us the graves of colleagues ... Did they die so that we would now put a weapon? Under no circumstances will I put my weapons, I will not take off my uniform ... Help me so " - these are the words of the major spoken after the capital's surrender in September 1939 to the soldiers of the 110th reserve Uhlans Regiment with which he crossed the entire September trail.
Henryk Dobrzański was born on June 22, 1897 in Jasło in a landed family with patriotic traditions. After the outbreak of World War I in 1914, as a soldier of the Polish Legions, he put the uniform for the first time and did not take it off until his death. He was awarded the Cross of Valor for his merits in the fields of World War I. In 1920, he was awarded the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari order for heroism in the battles of Lviv and Borow.
In the interwar years, Henryk Dobrzański also celebrated sports successes, winning the medals of the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Hippic Competitions. In 1939 he decided to end the active military service, but when a real threat of the outbreak of the next war appeared, he decided to stay in uniform. After receiving the order to submit a weapon as a result of the aggression of the Soviet Union to Poland, and then the surrender of Warsaw, the major decided to continue the fight alone. He adopted the nickname "Hubal" and his unit was the last fighting unit of the Polish Army. On March 13, 40, "Hubal" was ordered to immediately demobilize the unit, which had 320 people at that time. The major refused to make it, but leaving his soldiers a free hand - whoever wanted to, could lay down their arms. "Crazy Hubal", as the Germans called him, was the last soldier of the Republic of Poland, who in the uniform of the Polish Army wanted to survive until the argues from the West. "I will not take off my uniform until death" - he made such a promise and he kept this promise. On April 29, the separated unit of the Polish Army Major Hubal was encircled by about eight thousand Germans in the vicinity of the village of Anielin. The next day, while trying to break through the enemy cordon, Uhlans fell into ambush. One of the bullets, Mjra Henryk Dobrzański, wounded deadly.
The separated unit of the Polish Army, under the command of Majra Hubal, is the only unit of the Polish Army of the Second Polish Republic, which never gave up.
About the stamp:
Author of the project: Poczta Polska SA
photography: Mirosław Szponar
Number of stamps: 1
Value: 3.60 PLN
Edition: 168 thousand
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