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List Of Mayors Of Łódź
The following is a list of mayors and presidents of the city of Łódź, Poland. List of mayors Prior to 1815 * Jan Dąbrowski, 1471-1480 * Stanisław Kaleta, 1480-1488 * Jan Dąbrowski, 1488-1504 * Mikołaj Jagiełka, 1504-1504 * Jakub Dąbrowa, 1504-1507 * Stanisław Kalata, 1507-1508 * Grzegorz Wyszek, 1509-1517 * Wawrzyniec Dąbrowski, 1518-1525 * Jan Smarzewski, 1526-1526 * Mikołaj Kochan, 1527-1532 * Wojciech Wyszek, 1532-1546 * Mikołaj Kochan, 1546-1548 * Jakub Polczyk, 1548-1549 * Mikołaj Domagała, 1550-1550 * Marcin Świgonia, 1551-1552 * Walenty Kupski, 1552-1558 * Marcin Świgonia, 1558-1559 * Mikołaj Domagała, 1560-1572 * Klimek Doczekała, 1573-1584 * Bartosz Domagała, 1602-1603 * Wojciech Stanek, 1603-1608 * Mikołaj Kasprzyk, 1608-1612 * Wojciech Stanek, 1612-1613 * Hipolit, 1613-1616 * Jan Jałocha, 1616-1617 * Wawrzyniec Michałowski, 1618-1621 * Jakub Ciupka, 1621-1625 * Wawrzyniec Michałowski, 1625-1628 * Jan Jałocha, 1628-1632 * Paweł Markowicz, 1632-16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Łódź
Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located south-west of Warsaw. Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's List of cities and towns in Poland, fourth largest city. Łódź first appears in records in the 14th century. It was granted city rights, town rights in 1423 by the Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło and it remained a private town of the Kuyavian bishops and clergy until the late 18th century. In the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, Łódź was annexed to Kingdom of Prussia, Prussia before becoming part of the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw; the city joined Congress Poland, a Russian Empire, Russian client state, at the 1815 Congress of Vienna. The Second Industrial Revolution (from 1850) brought rapid growth in textile manufacturing and in population owing to the inflow of migrants, a sizable part of which were Jews and Germans. Ever since the industrialization of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. The territory has a varied landscape, diverse ecosystems, and a temperate climate. Poland is composed of Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 million people, and the List of European countries by area, fifth largest EU country by area, covering . The capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city is Warsaw; other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, and Gdańsk. Prehistory and protohistory of Poland, Prehistoric human activity on Polish soil dates to the Lower Paleolithic, with continuous settlement since the end of the Last Gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Władysław Pieńkowski
Władysław Pieńkowski (23 April 1846 – 5 July 1919) was a Polish official who served as Mayor of Radomsko (1874–1878), Zgierz (1878–1882), and Łódź (1882–1914). Biography Władysław Pieńkowski was born on 23 April 1846 in Piotrków Trybunalski, then part of Congress Poland, to a peasant family, Józefat and Anna née Bledzewska, who owned a farm in Witów, Piotrków Governorate. On 21 May 1846, he was baptized in the Catholic Church at the Church of St. James in Piotrków, receiving the names Władysław Wojciech. Later in life, he converted to Eastern Orthodoxy. His godparents were Seweryn Grabiński, a former Polish army officer, and Antonina Jasińska, assisted by Tomasz Jasiński and Franciszka Grabińska. He completed four years at a Russian-German primary school and attended a commercial school. He then apprenticed in Warsaw at a colonial goods store owned by Leon Krupecki before moving to Łódź during the January Uprising of 1863. According to the ''Pam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazimierz Tomczak
Kazimierz Tomczak (1883–1967) was a 20th-century Polish bishop theologian and teacher, interned by the Nazi forces during World War II. He was born on 17 February 1883 in Besiekierzu and studied at the Jesuit School in Chyrów, where he graduated from high school. He studied also at the Saint Petersburg Roman Catholic Theological Academy, in Paris, and in Freiburg, and was ordained a priest on 7 January 1907. For 16 years he worked as a professor at the , where he taught moral theology, the history of philosophy, archaeology, Christian liturgy and literature. In 1936, he was one of the founders of the Society of Friends of Science in Łódź. On 25 February 1927, Pope Pius XII appointed him the first auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Łódź and titular bishop of Sicca Veneria. He was ordained bishop on 3 April 1927 in Warsaw Cathedral by cardinal Aleksander Kakowski. On 6 September 1939, after the Invasion of Poland, he headed the Citizens' Committee of Łódź with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Bradfisch
Otto Bradfisch (10 May 1903 – 22 June 1994) was an economist, a jurist, an SS- Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant colonel), leader of Einsatzkommando 8 of Einsatzgruppe B of the Security Police (''Sicherheitspolizei'' or SiPo) and the SD, and Commander of the Security Police in Litzmannstadt (Łódź) and Potsdam. Early life and education Dr. Otto Bradfisch was born in 1903 in Zweibrücken (then Palatinate district of Kingdom of Bavaria) as the second of grocery salesman Karl Bradfisch's four children. In Kaiserslautern he went to the ''Volksschule'' for four years and afterwards to the Gymnasium. In 1922, he did the school-leaving examination. At the Universities of Freiburg, Leipzig, Heidelberg, and Innsbruck Bradfisch studied economics. He ended his studies with a graduation to ''Dr. rer. pol.'' at the University of Innsbruck in 1926. Afterwards, Bradfisch studied law in Erlangen and Munich to improve his professional chances in difficult times. He sat for the state la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
