Ludwik Ruczka

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Ludwik Ruczka (born September 16, 1814 in Szlachtowa , Galicia , † November 30, 1896 in Kolbuszowa ) was a Polish politician and priest. He was a member of the Austrian House of Representatives and a member of the Galician State Parliament .

Life

Rucka was born the son of the customs officer Franciszek Ruczka in Szlachtowa in what is now the Szczawnica municipality in the Nowy Targ district. He attended the grammar school in Przemyśl and continued his education between 1833 and 1835 in the philosophical classes at the Lyceum in Przemyśl. He studied law at the University of Lviv in 1835 and attended the seminary in Tarnów in 1836 . He then studied theology at the University of Vienna between 1837 and 1839 . In 1839 Ruczka was ordained a priest. He subsequently served as vicar in Olesno from September 1839 , worked as vicar in Wadowice in December 1839 and was again appointed as vicar in Olesno in 1840. In 1842 he was a catechist at a normal school, between 1844 and 1847 he worked as a supplement for church history and canon law at the seminary in Tarnów. His appointment as professor was rejected in 1846 because of political suspicion. In 1848 he was ordained pastor and provost of Kolbuszowa .

Ruczka was a member of the Galician state parliament from 1861 to 1867 and was also a member of the Kolbuszowa district council between 1871 and 1895. He was a member of the Austrian House of Representatives from 1861 to 1865 and from 1873 to 1896, where he was a member of the Polish Club . During his first period in the House of Representatives between May 11, 1861 and September 20, 1865, he held a mandate for the rural communities in the region around Jasło , Tarnów, etc., from November 10, 1873, he represented the constituency for two periods until 1885 of the large estates 6 from Rzeszów , Kolbuszowa, Nisko , Łańcut , Tarnobrzeg and Ropczyce . From September 22, 1886 he represented the Galician rural district constituency 7 (Ropczyce, Mielec , Radomyšl , Tarnobrzeg, Rozwadów) until his death . As a member of parliament, Rucza supported the prisoners of war imprisoned in Russia during the January uprising . In the autumn of 1863, with the silent support of the Austrian Foreign Minister Count Johann Rechberg, he began mediating between Vienna, Warsaw and Petersburg in order to free the exiles. Ruczka registered a total of 846 exiles whose names were published in newspapers. However, it was not until 1865 that the Russian authorities began to dismiss the Austrian subjects who had taken part in the uprising.

literature

  • Franz Adlgasser: The members of the Austrian central parliaments 1848–1918. Constituent Reichstag 1848–1849. Reichsrat 1861–1918. A biographical lexicon. Sub-Volume 2: M-Z. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna 2014, p. 1047

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jerzy Gaul: Between Austria and Poland. The Galician MPs in the Vienna Parliament. In: Yearbook of the Scientific Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Volume 2, 2009. Vienna 2011, pp. 95-109
personal data
SURNAME Ruczka, Ludwik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish politician and priest
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Szlachtowa , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1896
Place of death Kolbuszowa