Zygmunt Szczotkowski

Zygmunt Szczotkowski (1905)

Zygmunt Szczotkowski (1931)

Zygmunt Franciszek Szczotkowski (born September 5 ^{. Jul} / 17 September 1877 ^greg. In Warsaw ; † 9. February 1943 in Bieżanów ) was a Polish mining engineer and the first Polish director of the mine Janina in Libiąż .

Life

Zygmunt Szczotkowski was born as the son of Stefan-Wincent Andrzej (* 1843), who came from a family of the Livonian nobility of the Łodzia family, and Maria Filomena from the Kolbe family. His father and his mother supported the January Uprising , for which they were punished with the loss of property and he was sent to Russia in 1864. In 1867 he returned to Warsaw and married. Stefan-Wincent Andrzej died of tuberculosis when Zygmunt was two years old.

Zygmunt Szczotkowski first attended school in Włocławek before moving to Warsaw with his mother, where he graduated from a secondary school in 1896. He then studied at the prestigious Montan University Leoben , which he left on February 24, 1900 as a graduate engineer. He then prepared for a Ural expedition to explore deposits , but withdrew from the project. In January 1901 he passed the examination before the Mining Commission for the Dąbrowski District. From 1901 to 1906 he was given responsibility for the Klimontów mine in the Niwka coal mine near Sosnowiec . From July 1906 he managed the Saturn mine in Czeladź . He ended his job there in 1913 and traveled to France and Belgium, where he got to know new technologies and used them to project the mine rescue station in Sosnowiec. From 1914 to 1919, Szczotkowski headed the heating material railway office in Warsaw; From 1916 to 1917 he completed the administration college courses there. In 1919 he was in charge of mining at Zawiercie .

From March 1, 1920 he was chief engineer and from November 18, 1920 until the outbreak of World War II, Polish director of the Galician Mining Company ( Compagnie Galicienne de Mines ) in Libiąż (today Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Janina ). In the interwar period he also worked for the growth of the central industrial region ( Centralny Okręg Przemysłowy ) and, among others, with the Minister of Industry and Trade Antoni Olszewski and the former Minister of Transport Paweł Romocki . For his services to the region, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta on November 11, 1937 . After the outbreak of war, he continued to work as a trustee for the mining company until the formal appointment of a successor on June 3, 1940. He was briefly arrested by the Gestapo on suspicion of sabotage. After his release, he managed the mine for a few months before following his family to Bieżanów in the summer or autumn of 1940 , where they had moved when the war broke out. He died there in 1943 after a serious illness of chronic circulatory insufficiency.

He was married twice, in October 1907 he married the 19-year-old Magdalena Anna, née Sznabl, from whom he later divorced. In June 1923 he married Maria von Wietrzykowski of the Korab family, widowed Borowska.

References

literature

• L. Nieckula: Cmentarz Bieżanowski. In: Gazeta Dzielnicowa Dwunastka. Kraków-Bieżanów, No. 6-7 / 2004 (PDF; 521 kB), ISSN  1426-3211 , p. 6.
• M. Leś-Runicka: Historia kopalni węgla kamiennego Janina w Libiążu. Published by Południowy Koncern Węglowy. ZG Janina, Libiąż 2008.
• W. Kwinta: Paliwo dla energetyki. In: Polska Energia - magazyn informacyjny pracowników Grupy Tauron. Issued by Tauron Polska Energia SA. Department Komunikacji Rynkowej i PR, Katowice, No. 4 (42) / 2012 (PDF; 5.0 MB), ISSN  1689-5304 , pp. 26-27.
• J. Zieliński: Portrait pioniera. In: Nasze Forum - magazyn Grupy Tauron. Published by Południowy Koncern Węglowy. Jaworzno, Part I in No. 11 (35) / 2012, pp. 10-11; Part II in No. 1 (37) / 2013, pp. 12-13.
• J. Zieliński: Budował Janinę. In: Przełom - Tygodnik Ziemi Chrzanowskiej. No. 48 (1069), December 5, 2012, ISSN  1231-5664 , p. 22.
• JZ Zieliński, KW Zieliński, Wpomnienie o Zygmuncie Franciszku Szczotkowskim (1877–1943) [in:] "Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki", ed. Instytut Historii Nauki Polskiej Akademii Nauk (Institute for Science History, Polish Academy of Sciences ), ISSN  0023. , ISSN 0023 -589X , Vol. 58: 2013 no 3, pp. 129-145

Web links

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Footnotes

1. ↑ Latvijas romas katolu draudžu metriku grāmatas, Rēzeknes-Lubānas Dekanāts (Church books "Roman Catholic" "Dekanāti" "Rēzeknes-Lubānas" 1843-1843 Born), pp. 76/112
2. ↑ Central State Archives of the Chuvash Republic ( ЦГА ЧР. ) In Cheboksary; ЦГА ЧР. Ф.122. Оп.1.Д.7. Л.58; ЦГА ЧР. Ф.122. Оп.1.Д.9.Л.132; ЦГА ЧР. Ф.122. Оп.1.Д.28. Л.60; ЦГА ЧР. Ф.122. Оп.1.Д.2б. Л.46
3. ↑ Monitor Polski 1937 no. 260 poz. 410 (page 3, column 1)
4. ↑ " Obozy w Libiążu w latach II wojny światowej ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. "