Bronisław Wesołowski

Bronisław Euzebiusz Wesołowski (pseudonyms: Smutny , Jan z Kijowa ; born August 14, 1870 in Fawory near Rawa Mazowiecka ; † January 2, 1919 in Wyliny-Ruś , Powiat Wysokomazowiecki ) was a Polish labor leader and revolutionary. He was a co-founder of the Polish Workers' Union and the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania.

Life

From 1889 to 1891 Wesołowski was a member of the Polish Workers' Union ( Polish: Związek Robotników Polskich ). This organization was founded in early 1889 by Wesołowski together with Julian Marchlewski , Adolf Warski and others. Wesołowski graduated from ETH Zurich in 1893 as an electrical engineer. At the same time, Rosa Luxemburg , Leo Jogiches and Julian Marchlewski were studying at Zurich University . In 1893 Wesołowski founded with them the social democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania ( Polish Socjaldemokracja Królestwa Polskiego i Litwy , SDKPiL). He was involved in the development of the party program, which was adopted in Warsaw in 1894 at the 1st party congress of the SDKPiL. He was arrested in September 1894. From 1894 to 1903 and from 1908 to 1917 he was in tsarist prisons. In 1904 he settled in Kiev , where he was active for the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party (RSDLP). In the summer of 1905 he secretly returned to Warsaw and became secretary of the Warsaw Committee of the SDKPiL. Wesołowski was one of the leading figures in this party. He was arrested again in November 1906, but was soon released on bail. In April / May 1907 he took part in the fifth party congress of the RSDLP in London , at which he and the entire delegation of the SDKPiL supported the line of the Bolsheviks under Lenin's leadership . Because of his revolutionary activities, Wesołowski spent a total of about twenty years in prisons or had to do forced labor. He was not released until the February Revolution in 1917 . In February 1917 he returned to Petrograd from the Yeniseisk Governorate , and from spring 1917 to November 1917 he was a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (Bolsheviks). Wesołowski took an active part in the October Revolution .

In 1917 he was a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SDAPR (Bolsheviks). He has served on the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Supreme Court of the RSFSR. In December 1918 he headed the delegation of the Soviet Russian Red Cross, which negotiated the exchange of prisoners of war in Warsaw. On the way back to Russia he was murdered by the Polish military police.

Honors

In Warsaw, Słupsk , Sosnowiec and Łomża streets ( ul. Bronisława Wesołowskiego ) are named after him.
The Polish Post issued a special stamp in his honor on October 15, 1981 .

literature

Zakład Historii Partii przy Komitecie Centralnym PZPR (ed.): Z pola walki . Volume 12. Ksiażka i Wiedza, Warsaw 1969, p. 113.
Wielka encyklopedia powszechna PWN . Volume 12. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warsaw 1969, p. 193.

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personal data
SURNAME	Wesołowski, Bronisław
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wesołowski, Bronisław Euzebiusz (full name); Smutny, Kijowa Jan z
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish workers leader and revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH	August 14, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fawory at Rawa Mazowiecka
DATE OF DEATH	January 2, 1919
Place of death	Wyliny-Ruś , Powiat Wysokomazowiecki