December 25, 1741 - Stefan Böhm
His path to the gallows was an unlikely one — medical student, confederation soldier, bridge supervisor — before circumstance and social pressure landed him in one of the most singular roles Warsaw had to offer. As the city's official executioner for two decades spanning the final partitions of Poland, Böhm carried out the state's most consequential sentences during a period of profound political upheaval. His notoriety ran deep enough that his first name became embedded in local idiom as a synonym for hanging.
From Wikipedia
Stefan Böhm (other last name versions: Beym, Bem) (December 25, 1741 – February 26, 1813) was a Warsaw executioner.
After leaving medical studies on University of Königsberg he became an official in Karol Stanisław "Panie Kochanku" Radziwiłł lands. Then he joined the Bar Confederation and was seriously injured in the head during a battle with Russian forces in Tyniec. He was saved and fled to Lidzbark Warmiński, where he lived with the local executioner, named Mueller, who taught him this profession.
In 1793, after working as a supervisor over one of the bridges over the Bug River, Böhm was pressured by President of Warsaw Ignacy Wyssogota Zakrzewski to take a job as the Warsaw executioner, which post vacated after Jan Mueller, brother of Lidzbark executioner.
Böhm was very popular among the Warsaw citizens. There was even a saying: you'll go and eat your breakfast at Stefanek's, i.e. "you'll hang".
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