Ian Hirtler was born in 1879 in the town.Lukow. He graduated from grammar school in Siedlce, studied at the Warsaw Polytechnic Institute, and after the break due to the student strike moved to Kyiv, where in 1907 he graduated from KPI, receiving a diploma of engineering and technology. In 1907-1915 in Warsaw he led operation and restructuring of the narrow gauge railway Warsaw - Hruyyets. In 1915 he was evacuated to Russia, where he was working at Olonytskiy Railway (now the Murmansk railway) as a head of mechanical department. From 1916 he was working on the railroad in Novosokolnyky near Moscow, and since 1917 - in the south-west rail in Kiev.
In 1918 he returned to Warsaw for the post of inspector in the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and later became head of the department in the Ministry of Railways, renamed into the Ministry of Communications in 1926 . In 1933, Jan Hirtler became vice-director of district railways in Torun, and since 1936 - director of the railway in Bydgoszcz. At the beginning of the war he evacuated to Vilnius, where during the Soviet times worked in the administration of the railways. After the arrival of the germans in 1941 he returned to Warsaw. Learning about death sentence for belonging to the organization "Western Union" he began to hide. In August 1944 Warsaw uprising began, and he was in a village near the town. Piaseczno, where he hid until the liberation of Poland from the germans. From 1945 he worked in the Ministry of Communications in Warsaw, then at the construction company Mostostal. Built hangars at the airport, radio tower height of 333 m in Radyshyn for Polish Radio, and conducted other mounting works. Since 1951 became a member of the Ministry of industrial construction. Jan Hirtler ritered in 1958.
He died in Warsaw in 1970.