Zbigniew Łuniewski 1901 - 1940

Born 6.3.1901 in Kraków
Died 16.10.1940 in Mauthausen

Biography

Family crest name: Łukocz

Full name: Zbigniew Stefan Józef Łukocz-Łuniewski     

Born 6 March 1901 in Cracow, died 16 October 1940 in Mauthausen German Concentration Camp. Polish politician, Doctor of Administrative Law, Mayor of the town and chairman of the Volunteer Fire Brigade in Biała.

After graduation from Jagiellonian University with the degree of Doctor of Administrative Law, he worked as legal secretary in the Silesia Province Municipality of Katowice. He was an activist of Nonpartisan Block for Cooperation with the Government and National Unity Front. During 1931-1934 he was Deputy Governor in Bielsko, then between 1934-1939 Mayor of Biała. As Mayor he saved the town from economic decline, increased its budget, built the new town market and continued public works. From 1934 to 1938 he was also chairman of the Volunteer Fire Brigade.

Awards:

· Cross of Valour and medal "Piastowska Tower" for bravery in defence of Lviv in 1918-1919

· Silver Cross of Merit

Zbigniew was the son of Stefan Łukocz-Łuniewski and Wanda (neé Czerwińska). His father, a doctor of medicine, was the head of the ophthalmology ward at the hospital in Stanislawów in the Eastern Borderlands. After his father’s death during the First World War, he moved with his mother to Cracow, where he lived until completing his studies. While working in Katowice, in 1928 he married Eugenia Tierling with whom fathered two sons: Janusz (born 1931) and Leszek (born 1936).

Arrested by the Gestapo on 16 April 1940, he was transported to German concentration camps in Dachau, then Mauthausen where he died on 16 October 1940. His ashes are buried at the cemetery in Mikuszowice Krakowskie, Poland.

 

Janusz Łukocz-Łuniewski, son of Zbigniew Łukocz-Łuniewski

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