Bolesław Domański

Bolesław Domański

Bolesław Domański (born January 14, 1872 in Wildau near Konitz , West Prussia , † April 21, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German- Polish pastor in West Prussia and a political activist for Polish minorities in the Weimar Republic .

Domański, who was a doctor of theology, took over the Catholic parish in 1903 in the former village of Zakrzewo in the Flatow district in West Prussia, where he was a popular pastor until 1939. After the First World War , due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty and the relocation of the Polish Corridor through Prussian territory, a large part of the Flatow district had to be ceded to the Second Polish Republic , but the village of Zakrzewo remained with the German Empire , although the majority of the villagers were ethnic Poles were, and was assigned to the border mark Posen-West Prussia . Domański joined the Polish national movement, was politically active and campaigned for the rights of the Polish minorities in the Weimar Republic . From 1931 to 1939 he was chairman of the “ Union of Poles in Germany ” (Polish: Związek Polaków w Niemczech ). He not only fought for the rights of the Polish minority in the province of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia, but also campaigned for the Polish immigrant families in the Ruhr area , which he also believed to be in distress.

Works

• The teaching of Nemesius on the essence of the soul (dissertation). Munster 1897.
• The psychology of Nemesius . Munster 1900.

literature

• Mathias Niendorf: Minorities on the border: Germans and Poles in the Flatow (Złotów) and Zempelburg (Sępólno Krajeńskie) districts 1900–1939 . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1997, p. 49 ff. (Restricted preview)