Teodor Kufel, pseudonym Teoch, Ryszard Jankowski (6 March 1920 – 17 October 2016)[1] was a Polish military and political activist.

[3] From 1940, he was active in the underground communist organization Revolutionary Workers' and Peasants' Councils "Hammer and Sickle".

Teodor Kufel became part of the District Staff of the People's Guard as an intelligence and operations officer.

After the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, he fought as an officer in the Battalion of the People's Army "Men of the Fourth".

In October 1965, by resolution of the Polish Council of State, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general.

[7] From 1996 to 2000 he was the chairman of the Main Audit Commission of the National Council of People's Army Soldiers.

[8] Teodor Kufel's military views and political positions underwent significant evolution in the 1990s.

In 1996 he became one of the organizers and the most important activists of the Polish Army Generals Club, an influential organization of retired military commanders associated with the Ministry of National Defense and the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces.

[10] In March 2016, his apartment was searched and the documents found were handed over to the Institute of National Remembrance.