Władysław Niegolewski

Władysław Niegolewski ( in Germany also Wladislaus Moritz von Niegolewski; born September 12, 1819 in Włościejewki, † March 19, 1885 in Murownica ) was a liberal politician of the Polish minority in Prussia and the German Empire.

Life

Niegolewski came from an aristocratic Polish landowner family. He studied 1841-1844 law in Bonn. In 1845 he received a doctorate in law. In 1847 he was in the so called pole process accused of having been involved in the preparation of the planned but not broken Polish uprising of 1846. Also at the Greater Poland Uprising of 1848, he was involved. 1848 was part of the National Committee in Poznan. As a member of the Polish delegation appeared in the defense of Polish affairs in Parliament in Frankfurt.

Between 1850 and 1852, and from 1859 to 1861 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives. He belonged to the Polish faction. In 1861 he resigned his seat. Niegolewski participated in the January Uprising in 1863 in the Russian part of Poland and was wounded at the Battle of Ignacew.

Between 1867 and 1881 he was a member first of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation and then the German Empire. From 1867 to 1871 he acted as deputy to the constituency administrative district of Posen 8, 1871 to 1877 the constituency poses 2 and from 1878 to 1881 the constituency Regierungsbezirk Bromberg 5

He founded with Polish economic and educational organizations.