 After the war Stawinoga lived in Wolverhampton, finding work and a place to live—and an Austrian wife who left him after a year, according to Juliusz Leonowicz, who identified himself as Stawinoga's friend.Official records show that Stawinoga married Hermine Weiss in Wolverhampton in 1952.It has been reported that he had worked for some time at the Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks in Bilston.