Władysław Wawrzyniak

He finished the Gymnasium in Ostrów (Ostrowo) and studied law at the Universities of Munich and Breslau (Wrocław).

He was an active participant in the events of the Republic of Ostrów and was given command of the newly formed First Polish Infantry Regiment which was formally sworn in on 13 November 1918.

[3] During the Greater Poland Uprising he was the commander of the 7th district controlled by the insurgents, which included Ostrów Wielkopolski, Odolanów, Ostrzeszów, and Kępno.

[4] During the Second World War, he was imprisoned by the NKVD, held at the Kozelsk camp and then murdered in the Katyn massacre.

[5] He wrote journal articles, among them "Zarys historii powstania w południowej części Księstwa Poznańskiego" (A sketch of the history of the insurrection in the southern part of the Duchy of Poznań), published in 1922 in the periodical Wolność (Freedom).