Born in 1902 in Częstochowa to Adam (notary public) and Adela (maiden name: Włosińska). As a secondary school student of Liceum H. Sienkiewicz he participated in the Third Silesian Uprising. He graduated from Warsaw University Faculty of Law in 1926 and having carried the judicial apprenticeship between 1926-1927 he became a judge of the Regional Court in Gidle. When World War II started, he voluntarily participated in the Defensive War as a reservist officer. After the campaign he came back to Częstochowa and began to organize political activity and conspiracy movement. He kept organizing secret meetings in his law office at Kościuszki street, but persecutions of the AB action led to his arrest carried by the Nazis in July 1940. Month later he was shot dead in Apolonka near Częstochowa together with his companions. After the War he was exhumed and laid in the Army Cemetery. Then he was held with decoration of the Postmortal Grunwald Distinction. He was a man widely appreciated and recognized, well known for his sense of humor and patriotism as well as for many talents. He played the violin, the trumpet and the accordion. He skied and played tennis. Occasionally, in his own time he wrote poems. He was married with Maria (maiden name: Koźmińska). They had three kids: two daughters Ewa (born 1930 a judge and then an advocate), Irena (born 1932 a chemist) and a son Maciej (born 1939 an advocate). |