Józef Kiedroń, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Józef Kiedroń

Polish politician

Date of Birth: 23-Mar-1879

Place of Birth: Bludovice, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 25-Jan-1932

Profession: engineer, mining engineer

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Józef Kiedroń

  • Józef Kiedron (23 March 1879 in Bledowice Dolne - 25 January 1932 in Berlin) was a Polish mining engineer and politician from Cieszyn Silesia. He was born to a peasant's family.
  • Kiedron graduated from a school in Cieszyn and then studied at the Lwów Polytechnic.
  • In 1902 he graduated from a Coal Mining Academy in Leoben.
  • Kiedron worked as a director of two coal mines in Dabrowa and was active in trade unions as well as in the Polish cultural and educational organizations.
  • He had merit in establishment of Polish primary schools in the area, mining school in Doubrava and the Juliusz Slowacki Polish Grammar School in Orlowa.
  • On 1 August 1905 he married Zofia Kirkor-Kiedroniowa, Polish activist and sister of noted politicians Stanislaw and Wladyslaw Grabski.
  • Together with his wife he cooperated with Polskie Zjednoczenie Narodowe (Polish National Unity) political organization in Cieszyn Silesia of right-wing character.
  • In 1918 Kiedron prepared manifesto of the Rada Narodowa Ksiestwa Cieszynskego (National Council of the Duchy of Cieszyn), a local Polish self-government council working to join Cieszyn Silesia to Poland. In 1920, Cieszyn Silesia was divided between Poland and Czechoslovakia by the decision of Spa Conference, in which Kiedron was present as a Polish delegate.
  • His hometown and the workplace fell to Czechoslovakia and Kiedron left the Zaolzie area, as he was an active pro-Polish activist; and stayed in Poland, where worked in Upper Silesia and Warsaw.
  • In 1923-1925 he was the Minister of Industry and Trade in the government of Wladyslaw Grabski. Kiedron died on 25 January 1932 in Berlin and is buried at a Protestant cemetery in Cieszyn. He has been awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2 May 1923).

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