Bronislaw Budzyński

Bronisław Budzyński (born October 17, 1888 in Czystochleb , Briesen district , West Prussia ; † January 4, 1951 in Sopot ) was a Polish businessman and politician and member of the Polish minority in the People's Day of the Free City of Danzig .

Budzyński attended primary schools in Września (Wreschen) and Miłosław and then the St. Maria Magdalena grammar school in Poznan . After graduating from high school, he worked in Poznan, Breslau, Berlin and Hamburg. From 1907 he lived in Gdansk. There he was the founder and president of the Young Entrepreneurs Association in 1908. Since 1919 he ran his own grain trading company. In 1936 he became deputy director of the Polish Agricultural Office in Gdansk. He was also a member of the board of the Polish Grain Export Office in the Free City of Gdansk and a member of the Association for the Promotion of Gdansk-Polish Economic Relations.

From 1933 he was deputy spokesman of the Supreme Council of the Union of Poles in the Free City of Gdansk and from 1936 to 1937 he was president of this association. After the unification of Polish associations in Gdansk, he became president of Gmina Polska, the umbrella organization of Polish associations.

From 1921 to 1927 he was a member of the Gdańsk City Council. From 1920 to 1923 and again from 1935 to 1939 he was a member of the People's Day. As a member of parliament, he was hated by the National Socialists because of his interpellations to the Danzig Senate President about attacks against the Polish population and the Danzig opposition from 1935 to 1937. In March 1938 he took part in the Berlin Congress of Poles in Germany, where he reported cases of violations of the Denounced rights of the Polish population in Gdansk.

Shortly before the Second World War , he fled to Warsaw to avoid persecution by the National Socialists. During the occupation of Poland he lived under an assumed name in the Legionowo area . After the war he settled in Sopot. In 1946 he was a witness in the Arthur Greiser trial . Politically, he joined the Stronnictwo Demokratyczne (Democratic Party, later one of the block parties in the People's Republic of Poland ) and was chairman of his party in Gdansk and a member of the Provincial Council.

He received the Order of Polonia Restituta and twice the Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland in gold.

literature

• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdL, the end of the parliaments in 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism: political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933 - 1945; a biographical index / [Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties], 1995, ISBN 3770051890 , p. 21, paragraph 161

(Polish-language sources)

• Marek Andrzejewski, Ludzie Wolnego Miasta Gdańska (1920-1939) , Gdańsk 1997, p. 22
• Józef Golec, Sopocki album biograficzny , Cieszyn 2008, pp. 37-38
• Marian Paluszkiewicz, Jerzy Szews, Słownik biograficzny członków tajnych towarzystw gimnazjalnych w Wielkim Księstwie Poznańskim 1850-1918 , Poznań 2000, p. 40
• Henryk Stępniak, Bronisław Budzyński , w: Słownik biograficzny Pomorza Nadwiślańskiego , tom I: A – F (pod redakcją Stanisława Gierszewskiego), Gdańsk 1992, pp. 177–178