Valentin Barczewski

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Pastor Valentin Barczewski
Walenty Barczewski's grave in the cemetery in Braunswalde

Valentin Barczewski , Polish Walenty Barczewski (born February 10, 1856 in Jomendorf , Warmia , † May 28, 1928 in Braunswalde ) was a Roman Catholic pastor and a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of East Prussia (MdPl). He campaigned for Polishism and the Polish language in southern Warmia.

Life

Barczewski came from a peasant family who professed to be Polish. After attending grammar schools in Braunsberg , Rößel and Kulm , Barczewski studied theology in Braunsberg from 1879 to 1882. Here he became an active member of the Catholic student union Warmia in the KV and was involved there as a board member. He also gave lectures, for example in the winter semester of 1879–1880 a lecture on "Origin and explanation of some proverbs of the Slavs ". Barczewski remained loyal to his connection, even when it was moved to Munich in 1926.

Because of the Kulturkampf 1882-1883 visited Barczewski the seminary in Eichstaett and received there on 8 December 1882, the priestly ordination . After years of chaplaincy in various places, Barczewski became pastor in Braunswalde in July 1894 and remained so until the end of his life. His parish in Braunswald put a tombstone in Polish for him.

Commitment to Polishism and the Polish language

Even as a chaplain, Barczewski fought for the preservation of the Polish language. He distributed catechisms in the Polish language among his Polish parishioners and from 1889 to 1894, as parish administrator of the parish of Willenberg near Ortelsburg, with a large Polish population, he ran a small school for boys to prepare them for secondary school. Since 1888 he had become a member of the Poznan Society for People's Reading Halls and from 1914 to 1916 president of this society, which mainly supported Polish literature in Warmia.

Barczewski worked for several Polish newspapers and published - also in German - a large number of articles and works on literature, ethnicity and history of the part of Warmia in which the Poles lived as a minority.

Valentin Barczewski was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of East Prussia (MdPl) for the constituency of Olsztyn from 1921 to 1925 as well as age president of the 27th Landtag until July 27, 1921. From 1912 Barczewski was a member of the Central Committee of Poles in the German Reich . His fight for the annexation of Warmia to the Second Republic of Poland on the basis of the Versailles Treaty was unsuccessful. The Olsztyn district , which had the largest Polish population and whose district council Barczewski had belonged to since 1919, only 13% voted for Poland.

After this lost vote , Barczewski co-founded the Union of Poles in East Prussia in November 1920 and tried to protect the rights of the Polish Catholic Ermländer.

Monument to Walenty Barczewski in Brąswałd

Honors

He was an honorary member of the Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk (Society of Friends of Science in Poznan ).

Walenty Barczewski was awarded the Polonia Restituta (Knight) Cross by the Polish state in 1922 . In his honor, the town of Wartenburg was renamed Barczewo and Alt Wartenburg was renamed Barczewko in 1946 . In Brąswałd a monument was erected and in Olsztyn named the Barczewski Street (ulica Barczewskiego Walentego) after him.

Fonts (selection)

  • Angel bread. Devotional book . (Chleb Anielski). A. Laumann, Dülmen 1895.
  • Geografia polskiej Warmii . Allenstein 1917 → New edition: Agencja WIT, Olsztyn 2008, ISBN 978-83-89741-82-0 . (pdf)
  • Kiermasy na Warmji . In: Allensteiner Zeitung (Gazeta Olsztyńska), Allenstein 1923.
  • Nowe kościoły katolickie na Mazurach. In: Allensteiner Zeitung (Gazeta Olsztyńska), Allenstein 1925.
  • Et al .: Kiermasy na Warmii i inne pisma wybrane. Wydawnictwo Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1997.

literature

  • Danuta Kasparek: Studia ks. Walentego Barczewskiego w Braniewie iw Eichstätt (maj 1879 — grudzień 1883) [The studies of pastor Walenty Barczewski in Braunsberg and Eichstätt (May 1879 — December 1883)]. In: Komunikaty Mazursko-Warmińskie , No. 4, 2001, pp. 539-550.
  • Tadeusz Oracki, Siegfried Koß: In: Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 5th part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 6). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1998, ISBN 3-89498-055-9 , p. 12 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Batczewski, Valentin (Walenty) pastor. GenWiki , accessed January 14, 2017 .
  2. ^ List of members of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament 1919 to 1933, pp. 6-7
  3. ↑ Barczewskiego Walentego, Olsztyn. targeo.pl, accessed January 17, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Barczewski, Valentin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barczewski, Walenty (Polish)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish pastor
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Jomendorf , Warmia
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1928
Place of death Braunswalde