1. Zygmunt Wojciechowski was a Polish historian and nationalist politician.
22 Facts About Zygmunt Wojciechowski
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Zygmunt Wojciechowski supported an alliance with Soviet Union and after the war he continued to work as historian in People's Republic of Poland and headed Western Institute that studied former Polish territories recovered from Germany and history of Polish-German relations.
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Zygmunt Wojciechowski was a recipient of Commander's Cross and Officer's Cross of Order of Polonia Restituta.
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In 1921, Zygmunt Wojciechowski began studying at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lwow, which had then just been re-incorporated in the re-created Polish state.
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Zygmunt Wojciechowski became extraordinary professor in 1929, and full professor in January 1937.
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Zygmunt Wojciechowski was active in the right-wing All-Polish Youth and the Liga Narodowa.
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Zygmunt Wojciechowski initially saw "traces of a modern national thought" in the National Socialism.
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Zygmunt Wojciechowski initially admired Hitler's anti-Jewish policy as a good example for Poland.
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Zygmunt Wojciechowski accepted the Anschluss of Austria and the Munich Agreement but became more critical of Hitler's politics in the course of time.
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Zygmunt Wojciechowski remained opposed to German annexation of Czechoslovakia, worried that such event would make Polish military situation difficult.
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Zygmunt Wojciechowski is described as a co-initiator of the Polish "Western thought", a "mirror image of the German Ostforschung with a pinch of pan-Slavic sentiment thrown in".
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Zygmunt Wojciechowski eventually found refugee at a friend's house in Krakow.
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Zygmunt Wojciechowski continued his research, and supervised his students who finished two dissertations.
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On 13 February 1945 Zygmunt Wojciechowski met the Prime Minister of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland, Edward Osobka-Morawski, and handed over a memorandum about the foundation and activities of the Western Institute in which he asked for the support of the institute.
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Conversely Zygmunt Wojciechowski's concept aided the governmental demand to legitimize the Polish acquirements in the West.
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Zygmunt Wojciechowski supported a new German-Polish border that would allocate the whole Oder Lagoon up to the river Peene to Poland.
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Zygmunt Wojciechowski became a member of the Polish Academy of Learning in 1945 and of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1952.
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In 1945, Zygmunt Wojciechowski founded the affiliated journal Przeglad Zachodni and remained his editor-in-chief until his death in 1955.
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In 1950, as Poland underwent Stalinization, Zygmunt Wojciechowski was condemned for his "anti-German chauvinism" at a Polish historians conference.
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Zygmunt Wojciechowski died in Poznan, Poland, he was the father of historian Marian Wojciechowski.
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Zygmunt Wojciechowski was a recipient of Commander's Cross and Officer's Cross of Order of Polonia Restituta.
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In Poland Zygmunt Wojciechowski is recognised today as exceptional historian, and one of people who formed Polish intellectual elites.