Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. W adys aw Langner (18 June 1896, Yavoriv 28 September 1972) was a Polish general, best known as commander of the Siege of Lwów in 1939.W adys aw Langner spent his childhood in the Polish town of Tarnów, where he became a member of a local Independent Youth Union, which he represented at a national congress in Kraków in 1913. In the same year he founded a paramilitary organization in Tarnów together with his brother, in which they regularly organized military exercises and trainings. Later this organization also engaged in recruiting to the Polish National Army.