Karol Szwedowski (1878–1941) was a Polish master builder who worked at Westerplatte and defended it when Poland was invaded by Germany in 1939.
On December 13, 1927, at the age of 38, he received his master builder diploma and was accepted to the Craftsmen's Guild of the city of Pułtusk.
[citation needed] He was hired as a seasonal contract worker by the Military Transit Depot of Westerplatte, where he worked until 1939.
[1] During the Battle of Westerplatte on September 1–7, 1939, Szwedowski was called on as a civilian defender and assisted wounded soldiers.
[2] He died after his release in at home in Legionowo on August 30, 1941,[a] shortly after the deaths of his two sons, Ryszard in the Palmiry massacre in 1940 and Karol in Auschwitz in 1941.