Paul Brandys

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40th Anniversary of Ordination, Monsignor Paul Brandys (second from right)

Paul Brandys ( Polish: Paweł Brandys ; born December 4, 1869 in Pawlowitz ; † April 24, 1950 in Michałkowice ) was a Polish Catholic clergyman, a member of the German Reichstag and the Polish Sejm .

Life

Brandys attended the elementary school in Schwarzwasser in Austrian Silesia (with the approval of the Prussian school authorities), then the German grammar school in Teschen for a year and the German grammar school in Nikolsburg in Moravia for years , then the royal grammar school in Pless until 1892. He then studied seven semesters of Catholic theology at the University of Wroclaw and was ordained a priest in 1896. Until 1899 he was chaplain in Zabrze and Rybnik and since 1899 pastor of Dziergowitz . He was also head of the Catholic workers 'association and the Catholic youth association, head of the Dziergowitz savings and loan association and member of the Silesian farmers' association.

From 1907 to 1918 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Opole District 2 Opole and the Polish parliamentary group . In 1919 he was committed to a Polish Upper Silesia and in 1920 he was elected to the Sejm. In 1922 he became pastor in Michałkowice, in 1924 dean, later also canon and prelate. In 1940 he was deported to Żory and then to Krzyżowice , after the war he returned to Michałkowice, where he also died.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Imperial Statistical Office (ed.): Statistics of the Reichstag elections of 1907. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1907, p. 2 (special publication on the quarterly books on statistics of the German Empire)

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personal data
SURNAME Brandys, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandies, Paweł
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish Catholic clergyman, MdR, member of the Polish Sejm
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Pavlovitz
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1950
Place of death Michałkowice