Jerzy Ziętek

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Jerzy Ziętek

Jerzy Jan Antoni Ziętek (pseudonym: Jorg) (born June 10, 1901 in Szobiszowice (now Zatorze (Gliwice) ) , † November 20, 1985 in Zabrze , People's Republic of Poland ) was a Silesian-Polish politician and officer, most recently a brigadier general.

Life

From 1919 to 1921 he was actively involved in the uprisings in Upper Silesia . Among other things, he fought in the Third Silesian Uprising in the 8th  Company of the 3rd Gliwice Battalion . Ziętek was first platoon leader, then company commander . He fought several times on the front line and took part in the battles for Laband , Alt-Cosel , Januschkowitz , Slawentzitz and St. Annaberg . In his memoirs he writes bitterly of the inglorious attitude that British negotiators in particular showed towards the insurgents. “ Our proposals for freedom were met with dislike everywhere, with British politicians pushing it to the fore. Among them, David Lloyd George behaved particularly ingloriously when he said that he could not give a monkey a watch because it would break it, although in his opinion the monkey was Poland and the clock Silesia ” .

From 1922 to 1939 he worked in the self-government of the autonomous Silesian Voivodeship . In 1939 he fled from the Germans to the Soviet Union , where from 1943 he took part in the fighting against the German Wehrmacht in the Polish army formed there . In 1945 he became a member of the PPR , then the PZPR .

In the years 1945–1950 he was Vice Voivode of the Silesian Voivodeship (Województwo śląsko-dąbrowskie) , 1950 to 1964 1st representative and then 1964 to 1973 Chairman of the National Voivodeship Council in Katowice . From 1973 to 1975 he was voivode in Katowice and at the same time from 1963 to 1980 a member of the State Council , of which he was vice-chairman from 1980 to 1985.

He was a member of the Polish Sejm several times , first from 1930 to 1935 as a member of the BBWR , then from 1947 to 1952 as a member of the constituent Sejm and from 1957 to 1985 as a member of the second to eighth period. In 1971 he was appointed Brigadier General.

In the vote of the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza , he was voted the second most important Silesian of the 20th century after Wojciech Korfanty and before the film director Kazimierz Kutz .

Fonts

Jerzy Ziętek in the Voivodeship Office in Katowice
  • Powstańczy szlak. Rozważania powstańcze . Związek Weteranów Powstań Śląskich. Katowice 1946.
  • Gwiazy nad nami. Rzecz o Śląskim Planetarium . Wydawnictwo Artystyczno-Graficzne, Katowice 1967.

literature

  • Anrzej Topol: Jerzy Ziętek 1901–1985. Generał, wojewoda, mąż stanu . Katowickie Towarzystwo Społeczno-Kulturalne, Katowice 1986.
  • Danuta Kowalik-Dura: Jerzy Ziętek. Powstaniec. General. Voevoda . Katowice 1996, ISBN 83-85039-86-4 .
  • Jan Walczak: Jerzy Ziętek. Biografia Ślązaka 1901–1985 . Wydawnictwo Śląsk sp. z oo, Katowice 1996, ISBN 83-7164-000-5 .
  • Mirosław Słomczyński, Wiesław Wilczek: Jerzy Ziętek - z oddali iz bliska . Biblioteka Śląska, Katowice 2010.

Web links

Commons : Jerzy Ziętek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pomnik Jerzy Ziętek Jerzy Jan Antoni Ziętek. In: gosc.pl. Retrieved March 26, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Quotation from Ziętek's book “Powstańczy Szlak - rozważania powstańcze”: “Wszędzie nasze postulaty wolnościowe spotykały się z nieżyczliwością, w czym celowali politycy angielęscy, z krótych szczłięlęlną George. Powiedział on, że nie może małpie dać zegarka, bo go popsuje. Małpą w jego mniemaniu miała być Polska, zegarkiem zaś Śląsk. "
personal data
SURNAME Ziętek, Jerzy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ziętek, Jorg; Ziętek, Jerzy Jan Antoni (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Silesian-Polish politician and general, member of the Sejm
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Gliwice
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1985
Place of death Katowice