Prince Severin Frantisek Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky ( Severin Vladimirovich Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky ; Polish. Seweryn Franciszek Światopełk-Czetwertyński ; 1873 - 1945 ) - Polish politician from the family of princes Chetvertinsky . Member of the State Duma of the I convocation from the Siedlck province.
| Severin Vladimirovich Svyatopolk-Chetvertynsky | |
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| polish Seweryn Franciszek książę Światopełk-Czetwertyński | |
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| Birth | Warsaw Russian empire |
| Death | Edinburgh , Scotland |
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| Father | Wlodzimierz Ludwik Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky |
| Mother | Maria Wanda Uruskaya |
| Spouse | Sofia Przhezdetskaya |
| Children | five daughters and two sons |
| The consignment | |
| Education | |
| Religion | Catholicism |
Biography
Born on April 18 (according to other sources , May 18 ), 1873 in Warsaw in a noble family. The son of Prince Wlodzimierz Ludwik Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky and Countess Maria Wanda Uruska.
After graduating from the Riga City Gymnasium in 1890, he entered the Riga Polytechnic Institute . Here was a student association "Arkonia". Then he studied at the University of Bonn .
He was the publisher and co-owner of the Warsaw Newspaper and the Reforma newspaper. In 1904, Chetvertinsky became vice president of the Warsaw Philanthropic Society. Since 1905 he was a member of the People’s League.
In January 1903, together with three partners, he created the Joint Stock Company of City Trams in Warsaw, and in the same year they received a concession for the construction and operation of a tram electric network in the city. Investments were received from the German concern Siemens and Galsky . The first tram line was opened on March 26, 1908.
In 1906 he was elected a member of the I State Duma from the Siedlck province. He was a member of the Polish Colo , was a member of the presidium of the fraction.
In 1915 he was the head of the Central Committee of Civil Society in Russia. In the period from 1907 to 1917 he was chairman of the Central Agricultural Society; in the same period, from 1914 to 1915, was chairman of the Central Civil Committee. Also in 1914-1917 he was a member of the .
During World War I, he protested against the use of “scorched earth” tactics by the Russian army in the Kingdom of Poland. He took part in negotiations held with the military authorities on the formation of the Polish army in Russia. In 1918 he was arrested by the Bolsheviks and was in prison in Gomel for five weeks. In May 1918 he returned to Poland and joined the Union of Landowners. After 1918, he actively participated in the political life of independent Poland.
Before World War II, Chetvertinsky was engaged in entrepreneurial activity: he was the owner of a vodka factory in Sukhovol , the owner of the Hotel European in Warsaw, owned a brick factory. Along with this, he was elected to the Polish Sejm in 1922-1927, 1928-1930 and 1930-1935. From March 1928 to October 1931 he was vice marshal of the Sejm.
In 1939-1941, he lived in his own estate of Sukhovol Radzynsky County , where he was arrested by the Germans. He was sequentially in the castle prison in Lublin , in the concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald , from where he was released by American troops in April 1945 and ended up in Great Britain . Here, two months later - on June 19, 1945 - he died of exhaustion caused by the conditions of his stay in German camps (in the Ignacy Paderewski Hospital in Edinburgh ). He was buried at Mount Vernon Cemetery there.
Since 1898 he was married to Countess Sofia Przhezdetskaya (1879-1949), they had seven children: five daughters and two sons.
Links
- A brief chronicle of the Riga City Gymnasium from its inception to the present 1211-1911. - Riga, 1911 .-- S. 104.
- State Duma of the Russian Empire: 1906-1917. - M.: ROSSPEN, 2008.