Augustyn Krauze

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Augustyn Krauze (also August Krause , born August 1, 1882 in the village of Pierwoschin (today Pierwoszyno) near Putzig , † 1957 in Gdynia ) was a German and Polish civil servant and politician. From 1926 to 1928 he was the first mayor of the emerging city of Gdynia.

Life

Krauze was a Kashubian and the son of a community leader. After studying in Wroclaw , he joined the city administration there. Before the war he was city secretary and married a German. During the German occupation of Włocławek ( Leslau ) in the First World War , he became second mayor there . After the end of the war, he returned to Wroclaw as city secretary before taking on offices in the newly established Republic of Poland .

After the establishment of the Polish Corridor , he became head of the Starostei (district administration) in Sępólno Krajeńskie ( Zempelburg ) in 1920 . On October 2, 1923, he became provisional mayor of Włocławek for one year . He held other offices in the administration of the Pomeranian Voivodeship .

On February 10, 1926, the Polish Council of Ministers granted Gdynia ( Gdynia ) city ​​rights in accordance with the Prussian municipal code of 1863, which was still valid in the formerly German parts of Poland . On April 10, 1926, Krauze was appointed provisionally mayor of the city and, after the election of the first city council, was unanimously confirmed in office for twelve years on December 14. The city had doubled its population to 12,000 during these months, also through incorporations, and joined the Związek Miast Polskich (Association of Polish Cities, Polish Association of Cities).

After two inspections, during which the interdependence of the city administration and the local construction companies were criticized, the first mayor of Gdynias was suspended from his duties on October 31, 1928. A disciplinary case against Krauze was dropped for lack of evidence. With the damages from the following lawsuit, he built a villa in Orłowo . After the invasion of Poland , he and his family were forced to move to the General Government. He returned after the end of the war and was buried in Orłowo in 1957.

literature

  • M. Sokołowska, W. Kwiatkowska: Gdyńskie Cmentarze. Gdynia 2003.
  • Przemysław Ziółkowski: Włocławek. Kalendarium dziejów miasta. Włocławek 2003, ISBN 83-88115-68-5 . P. 131
  • Marianna Gruszczyńska: Organizacja władz miejskich Włocławka w latach 1914-1939. In: Jacek Staszewski (Ed.): Włocławek. Dzieje miasta. Volume 2 Lata 1918-1998. : Włocławek 2001, 2001, ISBN 83-88115-08-1 . Pp. 86-140.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Corresponding Polish laws had not yet been created in view of the abundance of tasks to unify the three parts of Poland.
personal data
SURNAME Krauze, Augustyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krause, August (German)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish Mayor and Mayor
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Pierwoschin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 1957
Place of death Gdynia , Poland