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Josef Cichy
Josef Cichy ( pl, Józef Cichy)(1852–1913 in Cieszyn) was a Silesian politician. He owned a limestone furnace company in Goleszów. He was one of the first officials of the Silesian People's Party and ran as the party's candidate in an election to the Silesian Parliament in Opava, from the election district of Frysztat- Cieszyn-Jabłonków. He served as the leader of the local branch of the Silesian People's Party in Cieszyn. He was also a co-founder (in 1910) and chairman (from 1911) of the Union of Silesians. In 1911, he became the president of Head Authority of Election Committee for Józef Kożdoń, the chairman Buy and Sale Company for East Silesia. Sources * Dariusz Jerczyński, Orędownicy niepodległości Śląska, Zabrze 2005 pages 219-220. See also *Józef Kożdoń * Silesian People's Party *Ewald Latacz *Joseph Musiol *Union of Upper Silesians *Theofil Kupka Theofil Kupka (Teofil/Theophil Kupka) (born 22 August 1885 in Marklowitz/Marklowice – died 20 Nov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cieszyn
Cieszyn ( , ; cs, Těšín ; german: Teschen; la, Tessin; szl, Ćeszyn) is a border town in southern Poland on the east bank of the Olza River, and the administrative seat of Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship. The town has 33,500 inhabitants (as of December 2021), and lies opposite Český Těšín in the Czech Republic. Both towns belong to the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia, and formerly as one town composed the capital of the Duchy of Cieszyn. Geography The town is situated on the Olza river, a tributary of the Oder River, which forms the border with the Czech Republic. It is located within the western Silesian Foothills north of the Silesian Beskids and Mt. Czantoria Wielka, a popular ski resort. Cieszyn is the heart of the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia, the southeasternmost part of Upper Silesia. Until the end of World War I in 1918 it was a seat of the Dukes of Teschen. In 1920 Cieszyn Silesia was divided between the two newly created states of Poland a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Musiol
Joseph Musiol ( pl, Józef Musioł; born 22 June 1865 in Mikołów) was a Silesian politician. He served as secretary of the Catholic Trade Union,Dariusz Jerczyński, "Józef Musioł (Joseph Musiol)", in: ''Orędownicy niepodległości Śląska'', Zabrze: 2005, page 144"Joseph Musiol", in: ''Handbuch für den Preussischen Landtag. Ausgabe für die 1. Wahlperiode (von 1921 ab)'', Berlin: April 1921. as a member of the town council in Bytom, and as leader of a local group there. He was also a member of the German Catholic Centre Party and a member of the leadership of the Catholic People’s Party of Upper Silesia, an autonomic division of the Centre Party. Musiol served as a deputy in the Prussian Parliament from 26 January 1919 to 22 November 1922 and argued for the independence of Upper Silesia as a multilingual but unified state like Switzerland. He was expelled from the Catholic People's Party in April 1921 for activities that clashed with the official stance of the party. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Austrian Silesia
A person (plural, : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal obligation, legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Cieszyn
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooperative Organizers
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Silesian Politicians
Silesian as an adjective can mean anything from or related to Silesia. As a noun, it refers to an article, item, or person of or from Silesia. Silesian may also refer to: People and languages *Silesians, inhabitants of Silesia, either a West Slavic (for example Ślężanie), or Germanic people ( Schlesier or Silingi) *List of Silesians *Silesian tribes * Silesian language, West Slavic language / dialect **Cieszyn Silesian dialect ** Texas Silesian * Silesian German language (Lower Silesian language), a Germanic dialect Events *Silesian Wars (1740–1763) *Silesian Uprisings (1919–1921) ** Silesian Eagle **Silesian Uprising Cross * Silesian Offensive *Silesian Offensives Political divisions *Province of Silesia, 1815–1919 and 1938 to 1941, a province of Prussia within Germany *Silesian Voivodeship (1920–1939), an autonomous territorial unit of Poland (1920-1939) **Silesian Parliament, parliament of the autonomous Silesian Voivodeship (1920-1939) **Silesian Treasury ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theofil Kupka
Theofil Kupka (Teofil/Theophil Kupka) (born 22 August 1885 in Marklowitz/Marklowice – died 20 November 1920 in Beuthen/Bytom) was a Silesian politician. Biography Kupka's childhood was spent in Marklowitz (Marklowice), where he and his family (brothers Paul, Johann and Joseph and sister Paula) were active in the Polish-Catholic Association. He married his wife, Apolonia in Lipiny and lived with her in Beuthen. An official at a coal mine, he was put forward by Wojciech Korfanty to take over the management of the Organization Division of the Polish Plebiscite Commission in Beuthen. When Kupka became aware of its secret activities, Korfanty demanded that he change the direction and methods of plebiscite agitation. Afraid of a break, Korfanty expelled Kupka from the commission. Along with Kupka left other Silesian officials such as Cysarz, Zmuda, Gemander, Szymura, Pietruszka. This diminished Korfanty's support. In September 1920 Theofil Kupka founded the Upper Silesian P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Of Upper Silesians
The Union of Upper Silesians (german: Bund der Oberschlesier; pl, Związek Górnoślązaków; Silesian: ''Ferajn Gůrnoślůnzokůw'') was an early 20th-century movement for the independence of Upper Silesia. The movement had its genesis during the revolutions of 1848. Allied with the Silesian People's Party, it dissolved in 1924 but has influenced the present-day Silesian Autonomy Movement. Origins The movement was founded by the Upper Silesian Committee (german: Oberschlesisches Komitee; pl, Komitet Górnośląski) on 27 November 1918 in Rybnik, Poland by three Catholics: attorney and Wodzisław Śląski Workers Council chairman Ewald Latacz; Thomas Reginek, a priest from Mikulczyce (present-day Zabrze), and educator and Racibórz Workers' and Soldiers' Council chairman Jan Reginek. The Rybnik Upper Silesian Committee demanded an "independent political stance" from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Germany and guaranteed neutrality similar to that in Switzerland and Belgium. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewald Latacz
Ewald Latacz (born 24 June 1885 in Kattowitz (Katowice); died 12 February 1953 in Frankfurt am Main) was a Silesian politician. He practiced as a lawyer in Racibórz since 1913, and as a civil law notary since 1919. He also co-founded the Union of Upper Silesians, a movement dedicated to independence of Upper Silesia, in 1918. He was active in the workers rights movement acting as a chairman of the Workers' Council in Wodzisław Śląski, and in the independence movement of Upper Silesia. He co-founded the Union of Upper Silesians in 1919. Latacz was a political prisoner from January to Spring 1919. He was accused by German authorities of high treason. After his release, he became a civil law notary and lawyer in Berlin during 1922–1945, specialising in work with oil companies in the period 1922–1939. A member of the Nazi party since 1933, Latacz joined three months after Hitler came to power. Latacz was also a member of the ''Nazi Union of German Lawyers'' until the end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goleszów
Goleszów (german: Golleschau) is a village and the seat of Gmina Goleszów (an administrative district) in Cieszyn County in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It has a population of about 4,000. The name of the village is possessive in origin, derived from a personal name ''Golesz''. History The village lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. It was first mentioned in a document of Bishop of Wrocław issued on 23 May 1223 for Norbertine Sisters in Rybnik among villages paying them a tithe, as ''Goles(u)ov(u)o''. Politically it belonged then to the Duchy of Opole and Racibórz and the Castellany of Cieszyn, which was in 1290 formed in the process of feudal fragmentation of Poland into the Duchy of Teschen, ruled by a local branch of Silesian Piast dynasty. In 1327 the duchy became a fee of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which after 1526 became a part of the Habsburg monarchy. The village became a seat of a Catholic parish, according to a secondary source from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zabrze
Zabrze (; German: 1915–1945: ''Hindenburg O.S.'', full form: ''Hindenburg in Oberschlesien'', Silesian: ''Zŏbrze'', yi, זאַבזשע, Zabzhe) is an industrial city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. The west district of the Silesian Metropolis, a metropolis with a population of around 2 million. It is in the Silesian Highlands, on the Bytomka River, a tributary of the Oder. Zabrze is located in the Silesian Voivodeship, which was reformulated in 1999. Before 1999 it was in Katowice Voivodeship. It is one of the cities composing the 2.7 million inhabitant conurbation referred to as the Katowice urban area, itself a major centre in the greater Silesian metropolitan area which is populated by just over five million people. The population of Zabrze as of December 2021 was 168,946, down from June 2009 when the population was 188,122. Zabrze is bordered by three other cities of the metropolitan area: Gliwice, Bytom and Ruda Śląska. History Early history Bisku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dariusz Jerczyński
Dariusz is a male given name, predominantly in Polish. Etymologically, it derives from the Proto-Slavic "dar" gift, and signifies the giver/gift giver or possessors as well as "goods", and Persian name ''Dariush'', meaning "he possesses" or "good". Given name A * Dariusz Adamczuk (born 1969), Polish footballer *Dariusz Adamczyk (born 1966), Polish-German historian * Dariusz Adamus (born 1957), Polish javelin thrower B *Dariusz Baliszewski (1946–2020), Polish historian *Dariusz Banasik (born 1973), Polish football manager *Dariusz Baranowski (born 1972), Polish cyclist *Dariusz Batek (born 1986), Polish cyclist * Dariusz Bayer (born 1964), Polish footballer *Dariusz Białkowski (born 1970), Polish canoeist *Dariusz Biczysko (born 1962), Polish high jumper *Dariusz Bladek (born 1994), Canadian football player *Dariusz Brytan (born 1967), Polish footballer *Dariusz Brzozowski (born 1980), Polish drummer C *Dariusz Czykier (born 1966), Polish footballer D *Dariusz Doliński (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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