Adam Napieralski

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Adam Napieralski

Adam Napieralski (born October 12, 1861 in Kluczewo , district of Schmiegel , Posen Province ; † October 24, 1928 in Karlsbad , Czechoslovakia ), pseudonyms : Marian Firlej , Robotnik Michał , was a Polish national activist and publicist in Upper Silesia .

Life

Napieralski was a Polish journalist. He came to Beuthen in 1889 and took over the newspaper "Katolik" with the affiliated book publisher, which became one of the most respected publishers in the entire Polish-speaking area. Over the years Napieralski developed into the owner and publisher of the most important newspaper empire in the language area.

He used this power for his political ambitions. In the German-Polish dispute in Upper Silesia he campaigned for an independent line of Poles, which meant that his close ties to the Center Party were at times exposed to considerable strain.

The attempts of the center to let the Polish and pro-Polish activists in their own ranks have their way in order to win over the Upper Silesian voters failed over time due to the increasing radicalization of the national question and led to the factual split-off of the faction under Napieralski's leadership in the elections to the Reichstag in 1903. The so-called “Central Polish Movement” (Polish faction) within the Center Party also called itself “Katolik Party” after Napieralski's newspaper and in 1903 founded the new Polish National Democratic Party .

On June 12, 1906, Napieralski from Poland, as leader of the "Katolik Party", won the Reichstag replacement election with 28,264 votes in the constituency of Beuthen-Tarnowitz, ahead of the center candidate, who received only 8,861 votes. The Center Party's press saw the government’s policy on the East of Germany as the cause of the “increase in Upper Silesian Poland”. The following years until 1912 Napieralski belonged to the German Reichstag.

Together with the priest Stanisław Radziejowski, Napieralski founded the "Union for Mutual Aid of Christian Upper Silesia Workers" in 1889. In the following years he had a decisive influence on the development of an independent Polish Christian labor movement.

Publications (selection)

  • The 'Katolik' and the Silesian Center from 1889 to 1903 , Verlag Katolik, Beuten (Oberschlesien) 1903
  • Germany, Austria-Hungary, Poland. A contribution to the solution of the Polish question , Verlag Katolik, Bytom (Upper Silesia) 1918

literature

  • Marek Czapliński: Adam Napieralski 1861–1928. Biografia polityczna. Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Wrocław 1974 ( Prace Wrocławskiego Towarzystwa Naukowego. Ser. A: 162, ISSN  0084-3008 ), (Polish).
  • Arne Thomsen: The Central Polish Movement in Upper Silesia. In: Inter Finitimos. Yearbook on the German-Polish relationship history , 4 (2006), pp. 210–221.

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personal data
SURNAME Napieralski, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Firlej, Marian; Michał, Robotnik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish newspaper publisher and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Kluczewo , district Schmiegel , Posen
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1928
Place of death Carlsbad , Czechoslovakia