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=Zygmunt Szczotkowski= Zygmunt Franciszek Szczotkowski (b. September 17, 1877 in Warsaw, died February 9, 1943 in Bieżanów) – mining engineer, the first Polish manager of the Janina Coal Mine in Libiąż.

He was the son of Stefan Wincenty Andrzej (b. February 1, 1843 ) in the Stefanpole manor near Riebiņi, in a family of former Inflanty landowners of Łodzia coat of arms, a railroad civil servant and a resident of the Stefanowo residence near Włocławek and Maria Filmena, born Kolbe, born 1849 in Włocławek, died February 21, 1931 in Libiąż. As a young man, stefan Szczotkowski supported the cause of the January Uprising, for which the Szczotkowski family was punished with the loss of their property, and Stefan himself was forced to migrate into far East of Russia. He arrived in Warsaw in 1867 and got married there. Soon he became ill with tuberculosis and died when his son was two years old.

Zygmunt attended school in Włocławek at first, later on his life his mother decided to move to Warsaw , where he graduated the gymnasium with a matura in 1896. He went off to study in a prestige mining academy in the Austrian city of Leoben, which he graduated with a diploma in mining engineering on February 24, 1900. After graduation, he undertoook preparations for an expedition into the Ural Mountains, where the possibilities of taking advantage of the natural resources were to be verified, but soon he gave the preparations up. In January 1901 he passed an exam before the Special Mining Commitee for the Dąbrowa Górnicza district. In 1901-1906 he was heading the operation of exploring the Klimontów shaft of the Niwka-Modrzejów Coal Mine near Sosnowiec. As of July 1906 he managed the Saturn coal mine in Czeladź ; he gave up this post in 1913 and left for France and Belgium, where he got acquainted with modern technology, to be used in the Sosnowiec mountain rescue unit, then in the planning phase. Between 1914 and 1919 he headed the Warsaw Fuel Section office, in 1916-1917, also in Warsaw, he completed a higher course in civil servitude. In 1919 he managed a mining operation near Zawiercie.

As of March 1 1920 Szczotkowski became the chief engineer, and between November 18 1920 and the onset of the Second World War – the Polish manager of Compagnie Galicienne de Mines (Galician Mining Company) in Libiąż (nowadays Janina Coal Mine).

In the interwar period he took active part in the development of the Central Industrial Region ; he also cooperated closely with the former Leopold Skulski government minister for industry and trade (1919-1920), Antoni Olszewski (in 1935-1937 he was a member of Olszewski's Commitee for the Investigation of National Enterprises, the so-called Statism Commitee) and with a former Minister of Transport in the governmnents of Kazimierz Bartel and Józef Piłsudski, later to become the manager of the Trzebinia Coal Mine, Paweł Romocki. For his merits for the Polish industry, on November 11, 1937, Szczotkowski was awarded the Knight's Cross of Order of Polonia Restituta. After the outbreak of the Second World War, as of September 18 1939 for the first year of occupation of Poland (until the Germans formally appointed the new manager on June 3 1940 ) he was emplyed in the mine as a Treuhänder. Był na krótko aresztowany przez Gestapo pod zarzutem dywersji w kopalni; po zwolnieniu kierował kopalnią jeszcze przez kilka miesięcy, a latem lub jesienią 1940 opuścił Libiąż i wyjechał do swojej rodziny przebywającej od 1 września 1939 w wybudowanym krótko przed wojną domu w podkrakowskim Bieżanowie. Zmarł po ciężkiej chorobie, wskutek przewlekłej niewydolności układu krążenia trzy lata później.

Był dwukrotnie żonaty: w październiku 1907 ożenił się z 19-letnią Magdaleną Anną z domu Sznabl, z którą się potem rozwiódł (wyszła potem za mąż po raz drugi; zmarła pod koniec lat 60. XX w.), a następnie w czerwcu 1923 z Marią z Wietrzykowskich herbu Korab wdową primo voto Borowską (1886-1959).

Dużo podróżował, szczególnie po Europie i krajach wokół Morza Śródziemnego, interesował się techniką (w tym radiotechniką) i fotografią (także nowinkami w tej dziedzinie, np. fotografią barwną). W wolnym czasie zajmował się też numizmatyką i w mniejszym nieco stopniu filatelistyką, a także stolarstwem (w tym techniką intarsjowania różnymi gatunkami drewna).