Stanisław Dąbek (March 28, 1892 – September 19, 1939) was a Polish infantry colonel in the Polish Armed Forces, he was commander of the Marine Brigade of National Defense and acting commander of the Land Defense of the Coast during the Invasion of Poland; posthumously promoted to the rank of brigadier general.

The next stage of education was studying at the teachers' college in Sokal, which he graduated in 1913 with the secondary school leaving examination.

[3] In connection with the outbreak of World War I in 1914, he was called up to serve in the infantry of the Austro-Hungarian Army as a one-year volunteer, and then sent to the school for reserve officers in Belzinek near Pilsk in Moravia.

[9] From February 3, 1928, he was a student of the 3rd unification three-month course for regimental commanders at the Experimental Training Center in Rembertów.

[15] As a regiment commander he got into a dispute with the inspector of the army, General Dąb-Biernacki, opposing the favoring of soldiers with a legionary past.

During the September campaign, Colonel Dąbek actively commanded all the land forces gathered around Gdynia by organizing offensive forays.

In the evening of September 19, 1939, in the area of Babich Dołów, in the face of inevitable defeat, he took his own life with a shot in the head, ordering the immediate cessation of the fight after his death.

[18] On August 30, 1957, on the grave of Colonel Dąbek at the Cemetery of the Defenders of the Coast in Redłowo, a tombstone was unveiled with the words "I will show you how a Pole fights and dies".

Stanisław Dąbek is the patron of: Cities where there are streets Colonel Stanisław Dąbek: Bielsko-Biała, Bolesławiec, Częstochowa, Elbląg, Gdańsk, Gdynia, Kielce, Koszalin, Kraków, Lubaczów, Nisko, Pruszcz Gdański, Reda, Rumia, Starogard Gdański, Tarnów, Warsaw, Wejherowo, Władysławowo, Wrocław, Zabrze.

The Paris Commune in Gdynia was built by general cargo, who was named "Colonel Dąbek" on August 30, 1969.

In 1989 Mennica Polska introduced into circulation a medal minted in a tombak depicting Colonel Dąbek and Lądowa Obrona Wybrzeża.

The medal was issued by the Defense Knowledge Society as part of the series "Outstanding leaders and commanders in the history of Polish military".

There was also a film about Colonel Dąbek and his soldiers (a fictionalized documentary), produced in 2009 by Polish Television; author of the script and director Bartosz Paduch.