Tadeusz Feliks Prauss (1896–1940) – captain pilot of the Polish Army, officer of the 2nd Aviation Regiment in Kraków, murdered in Kharkiv, Knight of the Silver Cross of the War Order of Virtuti Militari. He completed secondary school in Kraków and in 1914 passed his school-leaving examination. In 1915 he was called up to the Austro-Hungarian army, where he initially served in the infantry, and subsequently completed the observer course in Wiener Neustadt and served in aviation on the Italian front. In 1918 he completed a piloting course in Kraków and Neumarkt, after which he joined the Polish Army. During the Polish-Ukrainian and Polish-Bolshevik Wars he served in the 3rd Aviation Squadron, flying combat sorties on the Eastern front, during which he was wounded but continued service. From 1921 he commanded the 16th Reconnaissance Squadron. In subsequent years he held senior command positions in aviation, including in the 2nd Aviation Regiment in Kraków and as commander of the 6th Aviation Regiment in Lwów from 1934 to 1939. In August 1939 he assumed command of the aviation of the “Modlin” Army. After the Soviet invasion he was arrested by the NKVD and interned at Starobilsk, and subsequently murdered in the spring of 1940 in Kharkiv. He was posthumously promoted to colonel in 2007.
