Stanisław Adamski

Stanisław Adamski ( born April 12, 1875 in Grünberg in the community Obrzycko, Circle Samter, Posen Province, † November 12, 1967 in Katowice, People's Republic of Poland) was bishop of Katowice and Polish politicians of the Second Polish Republic.

Life

Ordained priest on November 12, 1899, he was politically active schom early and sat in 1904 in the city parliament of poses in the time of the Wielkopolska Uprising of 1918-1919, he was Head of the Supreme People's Council in Poznań. In the years 1919-1922 he was deputy Sejm (Polish: POSEL ), later Senator from 1922 to 1927 and from 1924 to 1927 Managing Director of Unia Związków Spóldzielczych. He was for several years Director of the Posen Library Św. Wojciech. From 1929 he headed the Akcja Katolicka.

On 2 September 1930, he was called by Pope Pius XI. appointed bishop of Katowice. He was consecrated on October 26, 1930 by the Archbishop of Gniezno - Poznan August Cardinal Hlond; Co-consecrators were the auxiliary bishops in Gniezno - Poznan Anton Laubitz Walenty Dymek.

After the German invasion of Poland in 1941, he was expelled in 1945 and was able to return to his diocese. During this time he was belonging to the German minority Vicars General Francis Strzyz († 1942) and Franz Wosnitza represented. With Wosnitza linked him even after the end of World War II a relationship of trust.

One week after the surrender of the German Wehrmacht urged Bishop Adamski on May 15, 1945, the Germans to leave Silesia. He helped with preparing the political ground for the soon after onset of forced expulsion of Germans from Silesia.

He began with the reconstruction of religious life in his diocese but was removed in 1952 by the Polish authorities from office. After 1956 his work was limited; due to his advanced age and poor health, he withdrew and wrote numerous books on Catholic social teaching.