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Stanisław Tołwiński (born October 11, 1895, in Strzemieszyce, died February 25, 1969, in Warsaw) was a Polish engineer, social and cooperative activist and a politician who served as Mayor of Warsaw from 1945 to 1950. He received the title Righteous Among the Nations.
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Stanisław Tołwiński (born October 11, 1895, in Strzemieszyce, died February 25, 1969, in Warsaw) was a Polish engineer, social and cooperative activist and a politician who served as Mayor of Warsaw from 1945 to 1950. He received the title Righteous Among the Nations.
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Biography He was born in 1895. His father's family came from impoverished Podlachia nobility from the Drohiczyn district, where the village of Tołwin was located. His father, Kazimierz, a mechanical engineer, moved with his family to the Donets Basin in search of work, and later to Slaviansk, where Stanisław Tołwiński spent his youth. From 1912 to 1915, he studied at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Institute of Technology in St. Petersburg. At that time, he was active in the illegal Union of Progressive-Independence Youth ("Filaretii") and the Polish Socialist Party – Revolutionary Faction, for which he was imprisoned by the tsarist authorities from 1915 to 1917. He was released from prison just before the outbreak of the February Revolution in Russia in 1917. After returning to Slaviansk, he was active in the Polish Socialist Union and then in the local section of the Polish Socialist Party. During the October Revolution, he participated in the Second Conference of the PPS Section in Kyiv, which supported the Bolshevik coup. He was a member of the Council of Workers' Deputies in Slaviansk and served as commissar for national affairs, providing assistance to war refugees. In April 1918, he left Slaviansk, crossed…