General Inspector of the Armed Forces

General Inspector of the Armed Forces was an office created in Poland in 1926. The General Inspector reported directly to the President, and was not responsible to the Sejm
Sejm
The Sejm is the lower house of the Polish parliament. The Sejm is made up of 460 deputies, or Poseł in Polish . It is elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the Marshal of the Sejm ....

or the government. In the event of war, the General Inspector was to become the Commander-in-Chief

Commander-in-Chief

A commander-in-chief is the commander of a nation's military forces or significant element of those forces. In the latter case, the force element may be defined as those forces within a particular region or those forces which are associated by function. As a practical term it refers to the military...

align=center style="background:#BFD7FF"| **List of General Inspectors of the Armed Forces**
Name	From	To	Notes
Józef Piłsudski	27 August 1926	12 May 1935
Edward Rydz-Śmigły	12 May 1935	7 November 1939
Władysław Sikorski	7 November 1939	4 July 1943	(see note 1)
Kazimierz Sosnkowski Kazimierz Sosnkowski Kazimierz Sosnkowski was a Polish independence fighter, politician and Polish Army general.-Life:Sosnkowski served successively as founder and first commander of Związek Walki Czynnej , chief of staff of the 1st Brigade of the Polish Legions, Polish minister of military affairs, vice-president of...	8 July 1943	30 September 1944
Tadeusz Komorowski	30 September 1944	2 October 1944
Władysław Anders	2 October 1944	5 May 1945	acting
Tadeusz Komorowski	5 May 1945	8 November 1946
Władysław Anders	8 November 1946	1954
Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski	1954	22 May 1964
Stefan Dembiński Stefan Dembinski Stefan Dembiński was a Polish general.He fought in the World War I in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Took part in the Polish Defensive War in 1939. Staff officer in the Polish Armed Forces in the West...	1964	1972
Stanisław Kopański	1972	1976
Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko Zygmunt Piotr Bohusz-Szyszko was a Polish general. During World War I he served in the Imperial Russian army....	1976	1980
Bronisław Duch	1980	(see note 2)
notes: starting with Sikorski all were in exile (and increasingly connected with educational activities such as cooperation with the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum, commonly known as Sikorski Institute, is a London-based non-governmental organization of the Polish minority in United Kingdom... ) After 1980, in place of the GISZ, a Military Council was created, led by Maj. Gen. Klemens Rudnicki.

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