Jerzy Baworowski

Jerzy Baworowski (born December 29, 1857 in Ostrów , Eastern Galicia , † September 6, 1933 in Lemberg ) was a Polish politician and landowner. He was a member of the Austrian House of Representatives , a member of the Galician Landtag and a member of the constituent Sejm .

Life

Baworowski was born as the son of the count and landowner Władysław Baworowski. As a privateist he attended grammar school in Tarnopol . He served as a one-year volunteer with the 10th Dragoon Regiment and studied law at the Theresianum in Vienna between 1888 and 1889 and from 1889 at the University of Lemberg . Baworowski was the owner of the Ostrów estate and other estates in the Tarnopol and Trembowla districts and worked in the Central Chancellery of the Order of Malta in Vienna during the First World War .

Baworowski began his political career in local and regional politics. He was first mayor of Trembowla and Budzanów and in 1901 became a member of the Galician state parliament. He belonged to the state parliament until 1913 as a representative of the constituency of Trembowla and during legislative periods VIII and IX. He was also a member of the Tarnopol district council from 1901 to 1909 and chairman of the Trembowla district council from 1904 to 1910. In the 1911 Reichsrat election Baworowski won a mandate for the Polish Conservatives in the electoral district of Galicia 69 , to which he was a member from July 17, 1911 to November 12, 1918. He was a member of the Polish Club and became its deputy chairman in 1918. After that he was a member of the constituent Polish Sejm from 1919 to 1922. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Galician Aktien-Hyothekenbank and the agricultural company in Galicia.

Baworowski was married to Countess Katarzyna Zamoyska from 1909. He became the father of two daughters and a son, who died young. His father-in-law was Stefan Zamoyski .

literature

• Franz Adlgasser: The members of the Austrian central parliaments 1848–1918. Constituent Reichstag 1848–1849. Reichsrat 1861–1918. A biographical lexicon. Sub-Volume 1: A-L. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna 2014, p. 54 f.
• Fritz Freund: The Austrian House of Representatives. A biographical-statistical handbook, 1911–1917, XII. Legislative period. Publishing house Dr. Rudolf Ludwig, Vienna 1911, p. 533.