Sztab Generalny Wojska Polskiego (Polish General Staff also "General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces"; is Poland's highest unit of military organization. It was created in 1918, and for a time bore the name "Sztab Główny" ("Main Staff").

Currently the position of Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces (in Polish, Szef Sztabu Generalnego Wojska Polskiego) is General Mieczysław Cieniuch.

Chiefs

Second Polish Republic

Second Polish Republic

The Second Polish Republic, Second Commonwealth of Poland or interwar Poland refers to Poland between the two world wars; a period in Polish history in which Poland was restored as an independent state. Officially known as the Republic of Poland or the Commonwealth of Poland , the Polish state was...

• gen. ppor. Tadeusz Rozwadowski (28 October - 15 November 1918)
• gen. broni Stanisław Szeptycki (16 November 1918 - 7 February 1919)
• gen. ppor. Stanisław Haller (8 February 1919 - 22 July 1920)
• gen. por. Tadeusz Rozwadowski (22 July 1920 - 1 April 1921)
• gen. dyw. Władysław Sikorski (1 April 1921 - 16 December 1922)
• marszałek Polski Józef Piłsudski (17 December 1922 - 9 June 1923)
• gen. dyw. Stanisław Haller (9 June 1923 - 16 December 1925)
• gen. bryg. Edmund Kessler (16 December 1925 - 12 May 1926)
• gen. dyw. Stanisław Haller (12 May 1926 - 15 May 1926)
• gen. bryg. Stanisław Burhardt-Bukacki (17 May 1926 - 28 June 1926)
• gen. bryg. Tadeusz Piskor
  Tadeusz Piskor
  Tadeusz Piskor was a Polish Army general.Before World War I, he was a member of Polish pro-independence organizations. During World War I he served in the Polish Legions, and subsequently fought in the 1919–21 Polish-Soviet War....
  
   (28 June 1926 - 22 December 1928)
• gen. bryg. Tadeusz Piskor
  Tadeusz Piskor
  Tadeusz Piskor was a Polish Army general.Before World War I, he was a member of Polish pro-independence organizations. During World War I he served in the Polish Legions, and subsequently fought in the 1919–21 Polish-Soviet War....
  
   (22 December 1928 - 5 December 1931)
• gen bryg. Janusz Gąsiorowski (3 December 1931 - 7 June 1935)
• gen. bryg. Wacław Stachiewicz (7 June 1935 - 18 September 1939)

Polish government-in-exile

• płk Aleksander Kędzior (7 November 1939 - 5 June 1940)
• gen. bryg. Tadeusz Klimecki
  Tadeusz Klimecki
  Tadeusz Klimecki - Lieutenant of the Imperial and Royal Army, Brigadier General of the Polish Army, Chief of Polish General Staff.-Early life and service in the Imperial and Royal Army:...
  
   (czerwiec 1940 - 4 July 1943
• gen. dyw. Stanisław Kopański (21 July 1943 - 3 September 1946)

Republic of Poland / People's Republic of Poland

People's Republic of Poland

The People's Republic of Poland was the official name of Poland from 1952 to 1990. Although the Soviet Union took control of the country immediately after the liberation from Nazi Germany in 1944, the name of the state was not changed until eight years later...

(People's Poland / Polska Ludowa)

• gen. broni Władysław Korczyc (1 January 1945 - 18 January 1954)
• cz.p.o. gen. dyw. Borys Pigarewicz (1952–1954)
• gen. broni Jerzy Bordziłowski (23 March 1954 - 6 February 1965)
• gen. dyw. Wojciech Jaruzelski
  Wojciech Jaruzelski
  Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski is a retired Polish military officer and Communist politician. He was the last Communist leader of Poland from 1981 to 1989, Prime Minister from 1981 to 1985 and the country's head of state from 1985 to 1990. He was also the last commander-in-chief of the Polish People's...
  
   (6 January 1965 - 10 April 1968)
• gen. dyw. Bolesław Chocha (11 April 1968 - 11 January 1973)
• gen. broni Florian Siwicki
  Florian Siwicki
  Florian Siwicki is a Polish military officer, diplomat and a communist politician, as well as a General of the Polish Army . Throughout his career he held a number of posts, including military attaché in China, commanding officer of the 2nd Polish Army during the invasion of Czechoslovakia in...
  
   (12 January 1973 - 21 November 1983)
• gen. broni Józef Użycki (22 November 1983 - 24 September 1990)

Third Polish Republic

• gen. dyw. Zdzisław Stelmaszuk (25 September 1990 - 4 August 1992)
• gen. broni Tadeusz Wilecki (5 August 1992 - 9 March 1997)
• gen. broni Henryk Szumski (10 March 1997 - 29 September 2000)
• gen. Czesław Piątas (30 September 2000 - 31 January 2006)
• p.o. gen. broni Mieczysław Cieniuch (31 January 2006 - 27 February 2006)
• gen. Franciszek Gągor
  Franciszek Gągor
  Franciszek Gągor was a Polish general, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces between 2006 and 2010....
  
   (27 February 2006 - 10 April 2010)
• p.o. gen. broni Mieczysław Stachowiak (10 April 2010 - 7 May 2010)
• gen. Mieczysław Cieniuch (7 May 2010 – present)