Marian Rembowski (9 June 1878 in Nowa Wieś - 20 April 1961) was a Polish politician and civil servant who served as the

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and Białystok Voivodeship.

Biography

He was born in

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as the third son of Klemens and Teodora née Wierzchlejska, originally from Karsznice. Nowa Wieś was the family nest of the Rembowski family, Ślepowron coat of arms. His father, an insurgent in 1863, was a lieutenant in the cavalry brigade of General Edmund Taczanowski, and at the end of the 19th century a long-time president of the Land Credit Society. After graduating from high school in

Łódź Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located south-west of Warsaw. Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's List of cities and towns in Polan ...

, Marian entered the Faculty of Machine Design at the

Lviv Polytechnic Lviv Polytechnic National University () is a public university in Lviv, Ukraine, founded in 1816. According to the Times Higher Education, as of 2024, it ranks first as a technical institution of higher education and second among all instit ...

, where he obtained an engineering degree in 1903. On June 18, 1904, he married Jadwiga Kopystyńska, with whom he had a son, Marian Stanisław. He started working at the "Borman i Szwede" Mechanical Plant, and after a few years at the "Orthwein, Karasiński i S-ka" machine and casting factory. After the outbreak of

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, he was evacuated with the factory to the Ekaterinoslav Governorate. He returned to Warsaw in 1918. At the end of that year, he was appointed government commissioner in Sieradz, and in March 1919 in

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, where he soon became the starosta of the Kalisz district. On February 23, 1923, he took up the position of

, and at the request of Marshal

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, on August 12, 1924, he became the

of Białystok Voivodeship. On May 2, 1923, he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the

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. The lack of support for the May Coup in 1926 resulted in his dismissal from this position on 24 November 1927. Rembowski returned to work in industry. During the

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, he was involved in social activities and worked in the agencies of the Central Welfare Council. After the fall of the

Warsaw Uprising The Warsaw Uprising (; ), sometimes referred to as the August Uprising (), or the Battle of Warsaw, was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance movement in World War II, Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from ...

, he ended up in Kraków via the camp in

Pruszków Pruszków is a city in east-central Poland, capital of Pruszków County in the Masovian Voivodeship. Pruszków is located along the western edge of the Warsaw metropolitan area. Pruszków is the largest city in the Warsaw metropolitan area outs ...

. He reached retirement age in

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. He died on 20 April 1961. He was buried at the Rakowicki Cemetery (military cemetery at Prandoty Street).

Citations

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rembowski, Marian Voivodes of Poland 1878 births 1961 deaths Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta Polish engineers Lviv Polytechnic alumni People from Sieradz County