Stanisław Jankowski

Stanisław Jankowski studied at Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology. The recorded working language is Polish. Employment is recorded with Warsaw University of Technology. Works named in the authority record are Ministry of Agriculture, Warsaw. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Armia Krajowa Cross, Order of the Smile and Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari.

• Name — Stanisław Jankowski • Native Name — Stanisław Michał Jankowski • Born — 29 September 1911 • Birthplace — Warsaw, Congress Poland • Died — 5 March 2002 • Place of death — Warsaw, Poland • Resting Place — Evangelical–Augsburg Cemetery, Warsaw • Citizenship — Poland • Education — Warsaw University of Technology • Awards — Honorary citizenship of Warsaw, Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects • Practice — Warsaw Reconstruction Office • Significant Projects — Reconstruction of Warsaw, Chimbote, and Skopje, East–West Route, Warsaw, Memorial Route of Jewish Martyrdom and Struggle

Jankowski was a student and later, assistant lecturer in architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology in the Second Polish Republic before World War II. He was mobilized as an officer during the German invasion of Poland of 1939. He was captured by the Soviets in eastern Poland but escaped and joined the Polish Armed Forces in the West. Jankowski became an SOE agent (Cichociemny) and in 1942 was parachuted back into occupied Poland, where he became an expert document forger (codename "Agaton", helped set up the Home Army's document forgery department, codenamed "Agaton section") for the Polish resistance. In 1944, he took part in the Warsaw Uprising (commander of 'Agaton Platoon', member of the Batalion Pięść in the Radosław Group). He was taken prisoner by the Germans. After the end of the Uprising, he became an aide-de-camp to General Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, the leader of the Polish Home Army. After the war, he resumed his career as an architect. He took part in the reconstruction of Warsaw; many of his projects took him abroad (to Iraq, Peru, Yugoslavia and Vietnam).

• Stanisław Jankowski 'Agaton' (1980). Z fałszywym Ausweisem w prawdziwej Warszawie: Wspomnienia 1939-1946. Warszawa: Biblioteka Syrenki (memoires)