Józef Kiedroń

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Józef Kiedroń (17 March 1879 in Błędowice Dolne, Austria-Hungary - 25 January 1932 in Berlin, Germany) was a Polish mining engineer and politician from Zaolzie.

He was a director of two coal mines in Dąbrowa. Kiedroń was active in trade unions as well as in the Polish cultural and educational associations. He had merit in establishment of Polish primary schools in the area, mining school in Dąbrowa and a gymnasium in Orłowa. In 1918 prepared manifesto of Rada Narodowa Księstwa Cieszyńskego, a local Polish self-government council set to temporarily manage the area before the decision concerning the future of Cieszyn Silesia. In 1920, when Cieszyn Silesia was divided between Poland and Czechoslovakia, his hometown Błędowice Dolne fell to Czechoslovakia. Harsh times for the Polish minority in Czechoslovakia followed. Kiedroń left the area, as he was an active pro-Polish activist, and stayed in Poland. In 1923-1925 he was a Minister of Industry and Trade in the government of Władysław Grabski.

[edit] References

• Dokoupil, Lumír (1997). Biografický slovník Slezska a severní Moravy. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita. ISBN 80-7042-461-3. 

Government offices
Preceded by Marian Szydłowski	Minister of Industry and Trade of Poland 1923 – 1925	Succeeded by Czesław Klarner