Teofil Adamecki (1886 in Bielsko-Biała – 1969) was a Polish

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and

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. He graduated in law at

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. Adamecki was a member of Rada Narodowa Księstwa Cieszyńskiego (National Council of the Duchy of Cieszyn), a local Polish self-government council set to temporarily manage the area before the decision concerning the future of Cieszyn Silesia. Later he became director the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and

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in Bielsko. From 1933 to 1939 Adamecki was president of the Bielsko branch of the

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. After World War II he was one of the founders and first president of the ''Towarzystwo Miłośników Ziemi Bielsko-Bialskiej'' (Association of Friends of Bielsko-Biała Land).

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* People from Cieszyn Silesia Polish activists 20th-century Polish economists 1886 births 1969 deaths Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta {{Poland-activist-stub