Tadeusz Reger
Tadeusz Reger (born April 12, 1872 in New York City , † October 15, 1938 in Bystra Śląska ) was a Polish , socialist politician in Cieszyn Silesia and a member of the Austrian House of Representatives and the Sejm .
biography
Tadeusz Reger was born as the son of the architect Karol and Emma. Cook born. After returning from the United States, he lived in Przemyśl . After secondary school in Cracow (1889) he worked in a pharmacy and studied pharmacy at Jagiellonian University without graduating. It was then that he developed socialist views. He wrote for the newspaper Naprzód ("Forward") of the Polish Social Democratic Party of Galicia (later also Silesia) (PPSD) and was its chief editor until 1895 .
In that year he settled in Poremba , in the largest mining area in Austria-Hungary around Karwin in Cieszyn Silesia (later Olsa region ) (a few years before the other well-known Polish socialist Ryszard Paweł Kunicki ). There he founded the newspaper Równość (“Equality”) in 1897 , which was replaced after the bankruptcy in 1903 by Kunickis Robotnik Śląski (“Silesian Worker”).
Politically, he initially worked with the Czech Social Democrats, e. B. supported the candidacy of Petr Cingr in 1897 and opened a union of miners of all nationalities in 1901. In the early 20th century, however, a national conflict broke out between Poles and Czechs.
In 1906 he married Michalina geb. Olearczyk, his brother Witold's widow. That year he organized the Silesian section of the PPSD. In the 1907 Reichsrat election for the House of Representatives , he won 15 in the constituency of Silesia . In the same year he resigned from office and was replaced by his party colleague Ignacy Daszyński . In the 1911 Reichsrat election , Reger prevailed again.
Tadeusz Reger was a co-founder of the Teschen organizations like Robotnicze Stowarzyszenie Kulturalno-Oświatowe "Siła" (culture-educational workers' association "Kraft") in 1907 and Związek Strzelecki (Schützenbund, 1910). In 1913 he became a member of the city council in Teschen, after the outbreak of the World War he was a member of the Naczelny Komitet Narodowy ("Polish National Superior Committee") in Krakow, and from December 1915 to June 1917 he served in the Polish legions . As a member of parliament in Vienna in the spring of 1917 he supported the annexation of Teschener Silesia to Poland.
From 1918 to 1920 he was a member of the Rada Narodowa Księstwa Cieszyńskiego (National Council of the Duchy of Teschen). He signed the Polish-Czech settlement on November 5, 1918, about drawing a border more or less along ethnic lines.
In early 1919 he became a delegate to the Polish National Constituent Assembly . He was also a member of the Sejm in the elections in 1922, 1928 and 1930 as a representative of the Polish Socialist Party from the Teschen constituency. In the interwar period he stayed in contact with Polish socialists in the Olsa area in Czechoslovakia, but criticized the idea of annexing this area to Poland, which was implemented in 1938. When the Anschluss on September 26, 1938, Reger's son Witold (born in 1906 in Teschen) was shot by the Czechs in Hrčava as the only victim of the Polish troops. Tadeusz Reger suffered a breakdown and was in the spa Bystra Śląska in Bielsko (Bielsko) , where he died. Tadeusz Reger was buried on October 18, 1938 in the municipal cemetery in Teschen.
There are streets named after Reger in Teschen, Warsaw, Łódź and Wapienica , a district of Bielsko-Biała .
literature
- J. Golec, S. Bojda: Słownik biograficzny ziemi cieszyńskiej. B. 2, Cieszyn 1995, p. 197.
- A. Garlicki, Z. Landau, W. Roszkowski, P. Stawecki, J. Tomaszewski (red. Red.): Encyklopedia historii II Rzeczypospolitej. Warsaw 1999, ISBN 83-214-1101-0 .
- L. Miękina: Prekursorzy . Cieszyn 1988, p. 116.
- Biografický slovník Slezska a severní Moravy. Sešit 4, Ostrava 1993.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reger, Tadeusz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish socialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1938 |
| Place of death | Bystra Śląska |