page_title: Maciej Kalenkiewicz
section_title: Early years
hierarchical_section_title: Maciej Kalenkiewicz / Biography / Early years
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Anielin(gmina Poświętne) - Pomnik upamiętniający Hubalczyków - Tablica upamiętniająca ppłk. Macieja Kalenkiewicza - Kotwicza English: Monument commemorating Hubalczyków in Anielin (gmina Poświętne), PL - Plaque commemorating Lt.-Col. Maciej Kalenkiewicz - Kotwicz
context_page_description: Maciej Kalenkiewicz was a Polish engineer and lieutenant colonel of the Polish Army. During World War II was a soldier of Henryk Dobrzański's military unit, member of cichociemni, officer of the Home Army, partisan commander in the Nowogródek District of the Home Army.
context_section_description: Maciej Kalenkiewicz was born July 1, 1906 in a small manor in Pacewicze, to Jan Kalenkiewicz, an impoverished member of the Polish gentry and a peasant politician, and Helena née Zawadzka. He graduated from a gymnasium in Vilna (modern Vilnius) and then the Cadet Corps in Modlin. In 1924 he was admitted to the Officer Engineering School in Warsaw, where he took part in the May Coup d'État on the side of the government. In 1927 he graduated as an engineer, with the best marks at his year. After a yearly practice in the prestigious Modlin-based 1st Engineering Regiment, he applied for the faculty of Land Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology. In 1934 he married Irena née Erdman and graduated as a qualified engineer.
  He returned to active service and was attached to the Engineering NCO School in Modlin as a platoon commander. In 1936 he was promoted to the rank of kapitan and in 1938 he was allowed to join the Higher War School in Warsaw. However, his studies there were interrupted by the outbreak of World War II.
caption: Commemorative plague of Lieutenant Colonel Maciej Kalenkiewicz
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