Gustav von Potworowski

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Count Potworowski

Gustav Graf von Potworowski (born June 3, 1800 in Bielew, cost district , † November 23, 1860 in Posen ) was a Polish manor owner and politician in Prussia. He fought for the independence of Poland.

Life

After attending high school in Poznan, which he left without a degree, he studied law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg from 1819-1822 . In 1820 he was one of the founders of the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg . In 1823 he became heir to the Gola manor in the province of Poznan , which he has managed since then.

In the November uprising of 1830/1831 he took part as a lieutenant. At the end of the uprising, he fled to Prussia, where charges were brought against him and he was subsequently acquitted. From 1831 he was one of the leading figures of the national Polish movement. In March 1848 he was the founder of a national committee in Poznan and a member of the secret national government. From 1848 to 1850 he was chairman of the Polska League .

Parliamentarians in Prussia

From 1843 v. Potworowski in the Provincial Parliament (Prussia) of the Province of Posen . In 1847 he was a member of the First United State Parliament . In 1848 he was a member of the Prussian National Assembly and from 1849 to 1850 to the First Chamber of the Prussian Landtag . From 1852 to 1855 he sat as a member of the constituency of Posen 7 and from 1859 until his death in 1860 as a member of the constituency of Posen 6 in the Prussian House of Representatives . He belonged to the parliamentary group of Polish MPs, of which he was president from 1852 to 1855.

See also

literature

  • Bernd Haunfelder : Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives 1849–1867 (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5181-5 , p. 198.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 120/7.
personal data
SURNAME Potworowski, Gustav von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Potworowski, Gustav Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish manor owner and politician in Prussia, fighter for Polish independence
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielew, Kreis costs
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1860
Place of death Poses