In the years 1899-1905 he was a student of a six-grade school in Kiev. In 1908 he graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps in Saint Petersburg and was promoted to the rank of
michman. During his service in the Imperial Russian Navy he sailed as a navigation officer on surface ships: the battleships "Cesarewicz" and "Slava" and the cruiser "Aurora". In 1912 he was promoted to lieutenant (Lieutenant (junior grade)). In 1913 he attended a course for navigation officers. During World War I he was a navigation officer in the 2nd Battleship Brigade of the Baltic Sea Fleet. In 1919 he volunteered for the Polish Army and took up the position of head of the Operations Department in the Navy Section of the Ministry of Military Affairs in Warsaw. For a short time he was acting head of the Navy Section. After its transformation into the Department for Maritime Affairs, he became head of the Operations Department in the Organizational Section. He also led the work of the Verification Commission for Officers. Between 1919 and 1920 he worked as an officer for orders and a maritime representative in Stockholm. After returning to Poland, he became the commendant of the course for officers of the Riverine-Coast Corps, and then head of the Personnel-Training Section in the Department for Maritime Affairs. When the Navy Management was established in Warsaw, he was appointed head of the Regulations and Training Department, and shortly afterwards he was appointed head of the Organizational-Mobilization Department. From October 1923 to September 1925, he was a student of the
École navale in France. On November 17, 1925, the Minister of Military Affairs awarded him the academic title of General Staff officer. In September 1925 he took over command of the torpedo boat squadron in Gdynia. From 1926 to 1929 he was commanding the Naval Officers' School in
Toruń. On 27 April 1929 he became chief of staff in the Navy Management in Warsaw. He was dismissed from his position due to failure to secure documents. On 11 April 1933 he received the position of commander of Coastal Defence. After its separation in 1939 he commanded the Coastal Defence in Gdynia. In 1929 he became the president of the Main Committee of the Marshal Józef Piłsudski Submarine Fund. From 1931 to 1935 he chaired the Editorial Committee of the "Przegląd Morski" (Morski Review). He was also a member of the Main Council of the Maritime and Colonial League. During the defense of the Coast during the
Invasion of Poland, he commanded the entire army gathered on the Hel Peninsula and the mine ships in the
Gdańsk Bay. On 3 September 1939 he decided to evacuate the Coastal Defense Command to Hel. After the campaign he was held in German captivity in the oflags: X B Nimburg, XVII C Spittal, II C Woldenberg and VIII B Silberberg. In 1940, in serious condition, he was transported to the hospital in Bielawa, where he died on September 25. After
Second World War, his remains were exhumed and buried at the Polish Soldiers' Cemetery in Wrocław-Oporów. On 26 September 1946 he was posthumously promoted to the rank of Kontradmirał (
Commodore). ==Personal life==