Leon Raszeja

Leon Raszeja (born June 26, 1901 in Chełmno / Culm, † September 9, 1939 in Lublin ) was a Polish lawyer and from 1936 to 1939 mayor of Toruń / Thorn.

Life

Leon Raszeja was the younger brother of Franciszek and Maksymilian Raszeja . He attended high school in Chełmno and was a member of Towarzystwo Tomasza Zana , a youth independence organization that was active in Wielkopolska. After graduating from high school, he volunteered for the Polish army in 1920 and took part in the Polish-Soviet war and was transferred to the reserve as a lieutenant.

In 1921 Raszeja began his law studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and graduated in 1926 with a magister degree from the University of Poznan . He completed his legal clerkship at the courts in Chełmno / Culm, Grudziądz / Graudenz, Toruń / Thorn and Czersk and passed his final exam at the court in Czersk. He then became the owner in Tuchola / Tuchel and in 1930 was appointed judge there. He also held the office of magistrate at the local courts in Czersk and Tuchola / Tuchel and a district judge at the district courts in Chojnice / Conitz and Grudziądz / Graudenz.

Gravestone of Leon Raszeja in the military cemetery in Lublin

On June 10, 1936, the city council of Toruń / Thorn elected the city mayor. He took up this post on August 8 of the same year and died in the post in the Lublin Town Hall during the bombing by German planes on September 9, 1939.

In 1937 Raszeja was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order Polonia Restituta .

literature

Antoni Gąsiorowski , Jerzy Topolski (eds.): Wielkopolski Słownik Biograficzny . Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa-Poznań 1981, ISBN 83-01-02722-3 , p. 616 (Polish).
Emanuel Rostworowski (Ed.): Polski Słownik Biograficzny . Tom 30. Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich - Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Wrocław 1987, p. 605 (Polish, gov.pl ).

Individual evidence

↑ Zarządzenie o nadaniu Wielkiej Wstęgi Orderu Odrodzenia Polski, Krzyża Komandorskiego z Gwiazdą Orderu Odrodzenia Polski, Krzyża Komandorskiego Orderu Odrodzenia Polski, Krzyża Oficerskiego Orderu Polski Odrodzenia Polski MP 1937 no. 260 poz. 410. In: Monitor Polski . November 11, 1937, p. 3 , accessed May 31, 2019 (Polish).

personal data
SURNAME	Raszeja, Leon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish lawyer and mayor of Toruń
DATE OF BIRTH	June 26, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chełmno (Culm on the Vistula)
DATE OF DEATH	September 9, 1939
Place of death	Lublin

[M.P._1937_nr_260_poz._410-1] Zarządzenie o nadaniu Wielkiej Wstęgi Orderu Odrodzenia Polski, Krzyża Komandorskiego z Gwiazdą Orderu Odrodzenia Polski, Krzyża Komandorskiego Orderu Odrodzenia Polski, Krzyża Oficerskiego Orderu Polski Odrodzenia Polski MP 1937 no. 260 poz. 410. In: Monitor Polski . November 11, 1937, p. 3 , accessed May 31, 2019 (Polish).