Anniversary of the release of Wojciech Korfanty from a sanitized prison. The footballers considered this national hero a large pest to their gangster clique.
Today, in our calendar we will look at the circumstances that accompanied the arrest and release by the Pilsudczyks, Wojciech Korfante. To realize why this prominent independency activist was the salt in the sanitation eye of the click, it should be mentioned that for many years he worked with Roman Dmowski as part of the “National League”.
After the start of planet War I, Korfanty started working with Kraków NKN Julius Leo and patronised the Polish Legions created under his aegis. This was the first point of inflammation with Józef Piłsudski, who fought NKN and Legions at any phase of his activity. At the same time, Korfanty was active in German politics. In 1918, Poles re-elected him as their MP for the Berlin Reichstag. On 26 October he gave a speech there, in which he demanded the inclusion of the full Prussian business lands in the Kingdom of Poland.
After the outbreak of the Wielkopolska Uprising, he became a associate of the Provisional Government, which decided to join the reborn Poland. In 1920 he worked as a Polish commissioner for the advanced Silesian plebiscite area. He aggressively agitated on the Polish issue, and fought against German frauds, to which British and Italian observers blinded. After falsifying the results of the plebiscite, he became dictator of the 3rd Silesian Uprising.
Some of his decisions as the leader of the uprising were controversial, but yet the upheaval ended with a considerable success and the displacement of the German forces to the west. Korfanty appealed for military aid to the chief of state Józef Piłsudski, but did not receive it. This became another origin of long-term resentment between the 2 politicians.
Since 1922, Korfanty has sat in the Polish parliament for Christian Democracy. For respective days, he served as Prime Minister, but strong opposition of the PPS, who threatened a nationwide strike against him, decided not to effort to form a government.
After the May bombing, he became 1 of the leaders of the anti-Sanation opposition, fighting the socialist and dictatorial urges of Piłsudski's cliques. due to this he was repeatedly bullied and in 1930 arrested and imprisoned in the Brest fortress. Due to social prestige, he was excluded from the Brest Process and continued to be publically available, among others, by becoming an MP of the autonomous Silesian Sejm and Senator of the Second Republic of Poland.
In 1935, he was threatened by another arrest, and he hid abroad. He stayed interchangeably in Czechoslovakia and France. In the second half of the 1930s. Corfants co-organized an emigration, anti-sanction organization Front Morges. erstwhile his boy Witold died, he asked the sanatorium authorities for an iron letter to attend his funeral. The sanators were so angry with him that they refused to do so, threatening to arrest him as shortly as he entered Poland.
In the spring of 1939, in the face of an impending war, he returned to the country, planning to participate in his defense. He hoped that the sanators, in the face of the black clouds gathering over their homeland, would come to their senses and leave him alone. He underestimated the strength of their rematch. After crossing the border, he was arrested and thrown into prison – celebrated during planet War II, Warsaw Pawiak. He was held under dense conditions and poisoned with arsenic, which soaked the walls of his cell.
Seeing that the celebrated activist is in severe condition, the sanatorium decided to release him, which took place on July 20, 1939. It's their standard policy not to charge a person's death to prison and government. Wojciech Korfanty died on August 17 as a consequence of gastrointestinal failure (mainly liver). These were surely consequences of cruel treatment during imprisonment.
It is very sad that Wojciech Korfanty did not lose his life in the fight against external forces, but due to the actions of sanatoriums who considered themselves only right to wield a monopoly on patriotism.
Previous entry from our calendar is available Here.
