Adolf Bniński
Polish territories annexed by Nazi Germany
.The Germans arrested him in July 1941, and he was killed in 1942.
Biography
Adolf Bniński was born on 21 August 1884 in
Halle. He inherited significant agricultural lands, and he was a notable agricultural activist in Greater Poland
.
In 1918 he became a functionary of the
voivode of Poznań
.
In the political arena, Bniński supported conservative and pro-monarchy views. In the Polish presidential election of 1926, he was the presidential candidate of the
sanacja regime, he joined the senate of Poland
, and was a senator until 1938.
After the
Polish territories annexed by Nazi Germany although he did not receive the official nomination from general Władysław Sikorski until December 3. Bniński was arrested by then Germans in July 1941, for refusing to express support for a joint Polish-German anti-Soviet declaration. He was imprisoned in Poznań and tortured and executed on the nights of 7 to 8 July 1942. The exact circumstances of the disposal of his body are unknown; according to Zbigniew Mieczkowski he could have even been fed to wild animals (lions).[2]
It was not until 10 October 1942 that
death penalty
for Bniński.
His position as Delegate was taken by Leon Mikołajczyk.
In 1995 he was
posthumously awarded the Order of the White Eagle
.
Notes
- ISBN 0-8214-1695-2, Print, p.167
- ^ (in Polish) Interview with Zbigniew Mieczkowski, Wymazani przez historię Archived 2012-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, rp.pl, 28-07-2008
References
- (in Polish) Short bio ("ulica Adolfa Bnińskiego")
Further reading
- E. Makowski, Adolf Bniński (1884-1942), [in:] Wojewoda Adolf hr. Bniński 1884-1942, red. S. Dworacki, Poznań 1997
- Krzysztof Komorowski, Konspiracja pomorska 1939–1947, Gdańsk 1993
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