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Karol Kirst (born January 7, 1885, in Łódź, died May 13, 1953, there) was a Polish lawyer, trade union activist and politician who served as Voivode of Białystok Voivodeship in the years 1927–1930.
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Karol Kirst (born January 7, 1885, in Łódź, died May 13, 1953, there) was a Polish lawyer, trade union activist and politician who served as Voivode of Białystok Voivodeship in the years 1927–1930.
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Biography He was born on January 7, 1885, in Łódź, to Edward and Natalia née Olex-Majewski. He graduated from the 4th Gymnasium in Warsaw. He studied at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw. In 1903/1904 he withdrew from the university in connection with the campaign to boycott Russian universities. In 1910 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Dorpat. There he belonged to the Konwent Polonia academic corporation. After completing his studies, he was a trainee at the District Court in Warsaw, from 1912 an assistant to a sworn attorney, then a sworn attorney in Odessa and a legal adviser to the Russian Shipping and Trade Association in Odessa. In 1917 he was elected a city councilor of Odessa from the Polish group. From 1918 he was a justice of the peace in Lipno, a clerk and adviser in the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, an adviser and head of a department in the Ministry of Justice, in the years 1918–1919 in the Secretariat of the Trade Union of Agricultural Workers of the Republic of Poland. In the years 1919-1920 he was the manager of the office of the Committee for the…