Seweryn Czetwertyński

Seweryn Czetwertyński (before 1919)

Prince Seweryn Franciszek Calixt Światopełk-Czetwertyński (born April 18, 1873 in Warsaw , † June 19, 1945 in Edinburgh ) was a Russian - Polish politician .

Life

origin

Seweryn was a member of the Polish - Ruthenian noble family Czetwertyński of Rurikid descent with the coat of arms Pogoń Ruska. His parents were Prince Włodzimierz Światopełk-Czetwertyński (1837-1918) and Countess Maria Uruska (1853-1931), daughter of Count Seweryn Uruski .

Career

Czetwertyński was a student at the Technical University of Riga and a member of the Polish student union Arkonia . He was enrolled in Riga at the University of Bonn .

In Warsaw he was one of the initiators of the electric tram that was introduced in 1908. In 1906 he became a member of the Russian Duma , where he increasingly represented Polish interests. So he first got involved outside parliament for more autonomy , but then advocated independence.

In 1918 he was arrested by the Bolsheviks and imprisoned in Homel . From 1922 he was a member of the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic , most recently from 1931 to 1935 as deputy speaker .

The Roman Catholic Church very attached, had Pope the honorary title of his papal chamberlain granted.

Czetwertyński was the owner u. a. of the Hotel Europejski in Warsaw. From 1939 to 1941 he lived on his property Suchowola in the Powiat Radzyński . Here he was arrested by the Germans and u. a. imprisoned in Auschwitz and Buchenwald . After he was liberated by the Americans , he emigrated to Scotland , where, however, he died after a short time as a result of the harmful conditions in the German concentration camps.

He has published several newspapers and magazines such as "Gazeta Warszawska", "Reforma", "Gazeta Rolnicza", "Gazeta Warszawska" and "Przegląd Narodowy".

family

Czetwertyński married Countess Zofia Barbara Przeździecka Wappen Pierzchała (1879–1949), a daughter of Count Gustaw Karol Józef Przezdziecki (1850–1909) and Adolfina Maria Hutten-Czapska Wappen Leliwa (1868–1944) in Warsaw in 1898 . The marriage resulted in five daughters and two sons.

During the German occupation of Poland , his younger brother, Prince Ludwik (1877–1941), was arrested. First, at the beginning of the war in 1939, he and his wife Rosa, née Princess Radziwiłł (1884-1949), were arrested by the Interior Ministry of the USSR and deported to Russia, where they were imprisoned in various prisons. Prince Ludwik and Princess Rosa were released following the intervention of the royal Italian court . Shortly after his return to Poland, however, Prince Ludwik was arrested by the Gestapo together with Prince Seweryn and interned in Auschwitz, where he was denied medical treatment and as a result died in 1941 while his wife was in Poland under repression by the Gestapo , and suffered from the communist regime after the end of the war. After the expropriation of her property, she went with her sons, Prince Georg (1907–1977) and Stanisław-Tomasz (1910–1998) to Belgium , where another brother and a son of Seweryn emigrated, and where she died in 1949. Ludwik's and Rosa's sons were also prisoners in Auschwitz, while their daughter Maria-Elżbieta (1920–1984) managed to leave Poland and go to France , where she initially studied medicine, but after the German occupation of France Fled Britain , where she married the Polish pilot Stefan Zantara. After the end of the war, she and her second husband, Stefan Graf Rostworowski, settled in France.

literature

• Agnieszka Gątarczyk: Seweryn Książę Czetwertyński: Biografia. Radzyń Podlaski: Radzyńskie Stowarzyszenie Inicjatyw Lokalnych - Radzyńskie Tow. Nauk. "Libra", 2007

Web links

• Государственная дума Российской империи: 1906-1917 , Moscow 2008 ( Russian )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Almanach de Gotha , Justus Perthes , Gotha 1888, p. 279.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Website of the Czetwertyński family, Geschichtliches (English, accessed December 9, 2015)
3. ↑ Marek Jerzy Minakowski : Genealogia potomków Sejmu Wielkiego , ( online ) ( Polish ).