// Workers AI · dad joke modeIs Rudolf Regner a baker? He kneads the dough.

Rudolf Regner
Nickname	Rudek
Born	1917 (1917) Dolina, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary
Died	1941 (aged 23–24) UkrSSR, Soviet Union
Cause of death	Unknown
Allegiance	Polish Underground State
Branch	Grey Ranks
Service years	1939-1941
Unit	Biali Kurierzy
Conflicts	WWII

Rudolf "Rudek" Regner (1917 in Dolina – probably in June 1941), was a Polish scout, soldier and member of the White Couriers. Before World War II, he worked as a bookkeeper in a cooperative located in southeastern Polish town of Turka (now in Ukraine).

Between late 1939 and mid-1940, Regner, together with a group of Polish scouts mostly from Lwow, led scores of people across Soviet-Hungarian border (see: Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact) in the Eastern Carpathians. He would lead to Budapest those Poles who wanted to escape Soviet occupation. From Hungary, he would bring newspapers and directives of General Wladyslaw Sikorski. Regner, who was born and raised in the borderland area (before the war, there had been the Polish–Czechoslovak border), used his knowledge and skills.

The circumstances of his death are unknown. According to some sources, he was captured by the NKVD in May 1940, while leading a group of escapees. However, it is more likely that he was arrested in Komarniki on July 8, 1940 and incarcerated in the Drohobycz military prison. On May 16, 1941, he was sentenced to death by the court of the Kiev Military District. He was shot in Lwow prison in early June 1941, just days before Operation Barbarossa (see: NKVD prisoner massacres).

See also

• Political repression in the Soviet Union
• Wladyslaw Ossowski

Further reading

• Celt, Marek (1986). Biali Kurierzy. Wydawnictwo LTW, Dziekanow Lesny. ISBN 83-88736-62-0
• Szatsznajder, Jan (1994). Dopisany Zyciorys... Wlawa Ossowskiego. Wyd. "W kolorach teczy", Wrocław
• IPN: Polskie Podziemie 1939-1941. Od Wolynia do Pokucia. cz. 2, Warsaw–Kyiv 2004, Wyd. Rytm, pp. 1221–1319.