Franciszek Trąbalski
Franciszek Trąbalski (born October 10, 1870 in Czempiń , Kingdom of Prussia , † July 26, 1964 in Zabrze ) was a Polish socialist politician ( PPS , PZPR ).
Life
Franciszek Trąbalski, called Franz, was married to Maria, née Mackowiak. He is the father of Stanislaw Trabalski and the grandfather of Karl Trabalski . His grave is in the cemetery of the parish of St. Joseph in Zabrze , the former Hindenburg in Upper Silesia. Franz always had a particularly friendly relationship with Richard Lipinski , whom he had met in Leipzig . This was also strengthened by the fact that their children, Lipinski's daughter Margarete and Trabalski's son Stanislaw Trabalski, married in 1921.
education
Trąbalski attended the German grammar school in Śrem , where he passed the matriculation examination. After finishing school, he began studying at a commercial college. In order to be able to finance this, he worked in the commercial area and gave tutoring. At the same time he learned the "proper trade" of a shoemaker.
job
At the end of 1888 he opened a shoemaker's shop in Leipzig in order to earn a living for his family. The Schumacher guild, which was by no means happy about the arrival from Poland, forced the closure of his workshop. Now he worked in the basement of his house on Poniatowskistraße.
In addition to his political duties, Trąbalski worked part-time as a teacher at small Polish schools in Leipzig from 1894 to 1896. After the birth of his son Stanislav, he took up a job as a city official. From 1899 he published his first articles in the workers' newspaper Gazeta Robotnicza , which was supported by the SPD .
Political beginnings
He was interested in politics from an early age. At a young age he distributed leaflets on which to oppose the Prussian Germanization policy, against the forcible introduction of the German language in Poland, in the now Prussian province. His efforts were supported by Rosa Luxemburg , Ludwik Waryński , Felix Edmundowitsch Dserschinski and Julian Balthasar Marchlewski , among others . When he was threatened with arrest as a result, the only 18-year-old fled his place of birth, Czempiń , which was then part of the Kingdom of Prussia, later the German Empire and, from 1920, Poland, because of his political convictions, first to Berlin, then via Halle to Leipzig. Trąbalski made contact with German social democrats; with August Bebel , Johann Karl Pinkau , Georg Schöpflin and especially with Wilhelm Liebknecht he maintained friendly contacts. In the same year (1888) Trąbalski joined the Polish choral society in Leipzig, behind which an illegal socialist organization was hiding due to the still prevailing socialist law. Since Trąbalski took over courier services for Wilhelm Liebknecht, who lived in neighboring Borsdorf, until the Socialist Act was repealed , he also met his son Karl Liebknecht . From 1900 onwards, Rosa Luxemburg, Hugo Haase and Lenin , among others , who stayed with Trabalski when he was in Leipzig, were in this organization .
Immediately after the fall of the Socialist Law, Trąbalski joined the now legally active SPD on October 1, 1890. At the beginning of 1891 he also became a member of the Association of Polish Socialists (TSP), which had recently been founded in Berlin. In 1901 the comrades made him move to Katowice in Upper Silesia to move to the Dreikaiserecke (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia). Contact points were to be set up there so that party work could be activated for the PPS. He set up another such contact point in Königsberg, where money, passports and other things were made available for refugees. This meeting point became known through the so-called "Königsberg Trial", in which Karl Liebknecht appeared as Trabalski's defender. Trabalski worked there as party secretary.
Political offices
In 1893 he became the leader of the Polish Socialists in Leipzig. In the same year he joined the KKS. From 1906 to 1909 he was secretary in the party executive in the Prussian part of Poland.
From 1922 to 1939 Trąbalski served as the leader of all Polish socialists in Germany. In addition (1922-1937) he was editor-in-chief of Głos Ludu ("Voice of the People") and Związkowiec ("Trade Unionist"). After World War II he became one of the leaders of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS) in Silesia; from 1945 to 1948 he was a member of the party leadership. In March 1945 Trąbalski was Deputy Mayor in the Silesian Zabrze. He held this office until 1949. From 1947 to 1952 he was a member of the Sejm and served at the beginning of the legislative period as senior marshal ( senior president ). After the PPS and the communist party Polska Partia Robotnicza (PPR), supported by the Soviet Union, were united in 1948, he became a member of the new Polish United Workers' Party.
Honors
In the Polish city of Zabrze , a street is named after him, the Prezydenta Franciszka Trąbalskiego .
Publications / works
In parallel to his journalistic activities, his writing activity developed. He was the author of various brochures in which he mainly wrote on historical topics. As early as June / July 1945, he published a paper on the Katyn massacre entitled The barbaric Katyn massacre .
The book ends with the following sentence: “The Polish people should never forget these murders, the whole world must never forget them. The murders of innocent Polish officers that started the Russian animals in the Katyn forest, on the orders of the communist government. Shame on you."
- Half a century of socialism in Polish Silesia . 1947
literature
- Michael Rudloff: Stanislaw Trabalski (1896–1985). A biography between the political systems. In: ders./ Mike Schmeitzner (ed.): Such pests also exist in Leipzig. Social Democrats and the SED. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main [et al.] 1997, ISBN 3-631-47385-0 , pp. 13-68
- Zbigniew Kantyka: Franciszek Trąbalski (1870–1964). Activist of the socialist movement. (Translation), Katowice 1985
- Encyclopedia Powszechna PWN (tom 4) z 1976
- Zbigniew Gołasz: Franciszek Trąbalski i jego broszura “Barbarzyński mord w Katyniu”. In: "Kroniki Miasta Zabrza" no 2/2010
- Zbigniew Gołasz: Zapomniany prezydent. “Nasze Zabrze Samorządowe” nr 10/2007
- Zbigniew Gołasz: Franciszek Trąbalski, Strażnik prawdy o Katyniu. “Nasze Zabrze Samorządowe” nr 4/2010
Web links
- Newspaper: Gazeta.pl Katowice with photo of Franz Trąbalski (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quoted from: Michael Rudloff: Stanislaw Trabalski, A biography between political systems , pages 14–15.
- ↑ Saxon State Archives; SED cadre file, file No. 21679/5, report for the SED on an interview with Stanislaw Trabalski, page 2
- ↑ Lenin stayed with Trabalski in Leipzig about seven to eight times. Trabalsky and Lenin met during a joint prison term in Poland. The exact year is not known. Probably 1898 or 1899. Information from Eleonore Trabalski
- ↑ Saxon State Archives; File No. 21679/5 My Political Curriculum Vitae by Stanislaw Trabalski, February 15, 1966
- ↑ Information Mr. Pawel Barteczko, European Affairs Commissioner Government in Zabrze
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trąbalski, Franciszek |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Trabalski, Trąbalskiego |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish socialist politician, member of the Sejm |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Czempiń , Kingdom of Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 1964 |
| Place of death | Zabrze |