Niegolewski, Władysław

Niegolewski, Władysław (Władysław Maurycy Grzymała Niegolewski, Wladislaus Moritz von Niegolewski), 1850-52, 1859-64 member of the 2nd Chamber of the Prussian Landtag, 1867-71 member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation, 1871-77, 1878-81, member of the Reichstag of the German Empire. *12.9.1819 Wlosciejewki Hauland/Włościejewice near Xions/Książ Wielkopolski, †19.3.1885 Poznan, lawyer, lord of the manor. Son of the estate owner, officer in the Napoleonic army and social activist, Andrzej Marcin “Biskup” Niegolewski (1787-1857). Owner of the estate at Murownica near Schmiegel/Śmigiel. After passing his A-levels at the Maria-Magdalena-grammar school in Poznan he studied law in Bonn and was made a Doctor of Law there in 1845. Subsequently for a short time he took over a Professorship that had been promised to him at the University of Zürich. In 1845/46 he participated in the conspiracy of the Towarzystwo Demokratyczne Polskie/Polish Democratic Society in Poznan and was one of the main activists in the attack on the Poznan citadel on 3rd March 1846. He was brought to trial in Poznan and Berlin, but released after the 1847 Berlin Poland Trial. During the 1848 revolution he was a member of the Polish National Committee in Poznan and of a Polish delegation in the Frankfurt Pre-Parliament. In 1863 he participated in the Polish January Uprising and was wounded on 8th May 1863 in a skirmish near Ignacewo. He was accused of conspiracy and thrown into prison in Glogau. He was a member of the Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk/Poznan Society of Friends of Sciences and of numerous other cultural, economic and agricultural societies. In February 1867 he was elected into the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation for the constituency of Wreschen-Pleschen/Września-Pleszew, and represented the same constituency from August 1867 to March 1871 as a member of the Polish parliamentary group. In March 1871 and in January 1874 he was elected as a member of the Polish parliamentary group in the German Reichstag for the constituency of Poznan Town with majorities of 56.44% and 58.51% respectively; and in July 1878 for the constituency of Gniezno-Wongrowitz with a majority of 79.02%. picture: ca. 1870, http://www.sejm-wielki.pl Own writings: De iure superficiario, Dissertation Bonn 1845.

Further reading:

Hirth's Parlaments-Almanach, Ausg. 2, Berlin 1867, LXVI; Ausg. 8, Berlin 1869, 190; Deutscher Parlaments-Almanach, Ausg. 9, Leipzig 1871, 232, Ausg. 10, Leipzig 1874, 227; Ausg. 13, Leipzig 1878, 198; Reichstagsprotokolle 1867-1895, Register 1, 23, 26, 36, 39, 43, 46, 55, 58; A. Kotowski: Zwischen Staatsräson und Vaterlandsliebe, Düsseldorf 2007, 49, 90, 92-94, 99, 114, 117, 130, 142.

Online:

http://zhsf.gesis.org, Parlamentarierportal, BIORAB Kaiserreich online
http://www.reichstag-abgeordnetendatenbank.de/
http://www.reichstagsprotokolle.de
http://www.sejm-wielki.pl

Axel Feuß, October 2016

Link to the minutes of the Reichstag:

http://www.reichstagsprotokolle.de