Bruno Kosak

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Bruno Josef Kosak , Polish Brunon Kozak (born June 16, 1936 in Eichendorffmühl , Ratibor district ; † November 5, 2019 ) was a German-Polish politician and member of the Sejm .

Life

His birthplace was in 1936, in memory of Joseph von Eichendorff in Eichendorffmühl renamed. He attended the local German elementary school, graduated from the Liceum in the People's Republic of Poland after the end of the war and studied at the teachers' college in Racibórz until 1975 . He then worked for years as a sports teacher and teacher, most recently in Koźle .

In February 1996 he was one of the founders of the German Education Association (DGB) in Opole and was its acting chairman from 2011. He came to the election committee of the German minority and was elected from 1998 to 2010 as a member of the Voivodeship Sejmik in Opole (Sejmik Województwa Opolskiego). He was a co-founder and from 1989 an active member of the Social and Cultural Society of Germans in Opole Silesia (SKGD).

In the Third Polish Republic he was from November 25, 1991 to May 31, 1993 a member of the German minority in the Sejm of the 1st  legislative period . From February 2005 to May 2009 he was with Henryk Kroll on the board of the Association of German Social-Cultural Societies in Poland (VdG).

The Silesian Landsmannschaft honored him in 2005 with the Silesian Shield .

In September 2012 he took part in the 4th cultural festival of the German minority in Poland and met the German consul general in Wroclaw Gottfried Zeitz .

In 2016 Kosak received the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nie żyje Bruno Kosak, nauczyciel, działacz mniejszości niemieckiej, poseł, radny Sejmiku Województwa Opolskiego. Retrieved November 7, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ DGB - About us. Deutsche Bildungsgesellschaft Opole, accessed on August 5, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Personal details: Bruno Kosak. Main-Netz, September 14, 2010, accessed on August 5, 2014 .
  4. ^ Archiwum Danych o Posłach - Brunon Kozak. Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, accessed August 5, 2014 (Polish).
  5. ^ Wochenblatt: Breslau: Federal Cross of Merit for Bruno Kosak
personal data
SURNAME Cossack, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kosak, Bruno Josef (full name); Kozak, Brunon (Polish)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Polish politician and member of the Sejm
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Eichendorffmühl , Ratibor district
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 2019