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Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland

XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

DZIAŁOWSKI

forename(s)

Gustave (pl. Gustaw)

function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Culm (Chełmno) diocesemore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2012.11.23]

academic distinctions

Doctor of Theology

honorary titles

Papal chamberlainmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.22]

Knight's Cross „Polonia Restituta”more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.04.16]

date and place
of death

10.06.1940

Pieniążkowotoday: Gniew gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.02]

details of death

During German occupation (Prussian partition of Poland) — till 1893, while studying at the Germ. Königliches Katholisches Gymnasium (Eng. Royal Catholic Gymnasium) in Chełmno — member of the school chapter of the Polish clandestine student self–education organization Pomeranian Philomaths.

On 03‑05.12.1918, a month after rebirth of independent Poland, during struggles to establish Polish borders, delegate to the Polish Regional Parliament in Poznań, when the delegates from the lands of the Prussian (German) partition, i.e. Greater Poland, Gdańsk Pomerania, Silesia and Warmia and Mazury expressed, among others, the will to create a united Polish state with access to the sea.

In 1919 member of Polish People's Council for Nidzica county (i.a. in Dąbrówno).

In 1920 member of Polish–German commission mandated to take administrative charge during plebiscite under League of Nations auspices that was to decide fate of Warmia and Masuria.

In 1920 attacked and beaten up by the Germans for support given to Polish aspiration during Pomerania plebiscite (in his parish 65% voted for Poland).

Forcibly expelled, together with 3 other Polish activists — to Poland: the perpetrators were later set free by a German court.

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II arrested by the Germans in the autumn of 1939.

Jailed in Nowe on Vistula prison.

Released because of an advanced age, prob. after German neighbours intervention.

Forbidden to conduct his ministry.

Perished soon after returning to his parish as a result of prison experiences.

cause of death

exhaustion

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

01.04.1872

Uciążtoday: Płuźnica gm., Wąbrzeźno pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

01.07.1900

positions held

1934 – 1940

dean — Nowealso: Nowe nad Wisłą
today: Nowe gm., Świecie pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland

more on
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[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

1922 – 1940

parish priest — Pieniążkowotoday: Gniew gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ St John the Baptist RC parish ⋄ Nowealso: Nowe nad Wisłą
today: Nowe gm., Świecie pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland

more on
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[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

c. 1930 – 1939

synod judge — Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.05.06]
⋄ Bishop's Diocesan Court

1921 – 1922

administrator — Pieniążkowotoday: Gniew gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ St John the Baptist RC parish ⋄ Nowealso: Nowe nad Wisłą
today: Nowe gm., Świecie pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland

more on
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[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

c. 1929 – c. 1938

censor of religious books (Lat. censores librorum)

1915 – 1920

dean — Pomezania / Kwidzyndeanery names/seats
today: Poland
RC deanery

1906 – 1920

parish priest — Turowotoday: Kozłowo gm., Nidzica pov., Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.07.16]
⋄ Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish

1906

administrator — Turowotoday: Kozłowo gm., Nidzica pov., Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.07.16]
⋄ Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish

c. 1905

administrator — Płowężtoday: Jabłonowo Pomorskie gm., Brodnica pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.02.15]
⋄ St Margaret the Virgin and Martyr RC parish

c. 1905

administrator — Łobdowotoday: Dębowa Łąka gm., Wąbrzeźno pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.01.09]
⋄ St Margaret the Virgin and Martyr RC parish

vicar — Lidzbark Warmińskitoday: Lidzbark Warmiński gm., Lidzbark Warmiński pov., Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.29]
⋄ St Peter and St Paul the Apostles RC parish ⋄ Lidzbark Warmińskitoday: Lidzbark Warmiński gm., Lidzbark Warmiński pov., Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.29]
RC deanery

vicar — Chełmnotoday: Chełmno urban gm., Chełmno pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.25]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Chełmnotoday: Chełmno urban gm., Chełmno pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.25]
RC deanery

till 1900

PhD student — Münstertoday: Münster urban dist., Münster reg., North Rhine–Westphalia state, Germany
more on
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[access: 2021.07.18]
⋄ theology, [Wilhelm University of Westphalia (from 1907) / Royal University of Theology and Philosophy (1902–1907) / Royal Theological and Philosophical Academy] (1843–1902) — PhD thesis Germ. „Isidor und Ildefons als Litterarhistoriker. Eine quellengeschichtliche Untersuchung des Schriften «De viris illustribus» des Isidor von Sevilla unde des Ildefons von Toledo” (Eng. „Isidore and Ildephonsus as literary historians. A source–historical study of the writings Lat. «De viris illustribus», i.e. Eng. «Of illustrious men», by Isidore of Seville and Ildephonsus of Toledo”), public defense on 26.04.1900

from 1893

student — Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.05.06]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

1900 – 1939

membership — Toruńtoday: Toruń city pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.06.20]
⋄ scientific society

murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

Nowe on Vistula: German court jail used in 1939 to hold, as a part of «Intelligenzaktion» aimed at extermination of Polish intelligentsia and ruling classes in Pomerania, local Polish inhabitants, including local priests. Some of them were subsequently taken to Mniszek and murdered. (more on: miastonowe.website.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.31]
)

«Intelligenzaktion»: (Eng. „Action Intelligentsia”) — extermination program of Polish elites, mainly intelligentsia, executed by the Germans right from the start of the occupation in 09.1939 till around 05.1940, mainly on the lands directly incorporated into Germany but also in the so‑called General Governorate where it was called «AB‑aktion». During the first phase right after start of German occupation of Poland implemented as Germ. Unternehmen „Tannenberg” (Eng. „Tannenberg operation”) — plan based on proscription lists of Poles worked out by (Germ. Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen), regarded by Germans as specially dangerous to the German Reich. List contained names of c. 61,000 Poles. Altogether during this genocide Germans methodically murdered c. 50,000 teachers, priests, landowners, social and political activists and retired military. Further 50,000 were sent to concentration camps where most of them perished. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.04]
)

Ribbentrop-Molotov: Genocidal Russian–German alliance pact between Russian leader Joseph Stalin and German leader Adolf Hitler signed on 23.08.1939 in Moscow by respective foreign ministers, Mr. Vyacheslav Molotov for Russia and Joachim von Ribbentrop for Germany. The pact sanctioned and was the direct cause of joint Russian and German invasion of Poland and the outbreak of the World War II in 09.1939. In a political sense, the pact was an attempt to restore the status quo ante before 1914, with one exception, namely the „commercial” exchange of the so–called „Kingdom of Poland”, which in 1914 was part of the Russian Empire, fore Eastern Galicia (today's western Ukraine), in 1914 belonging to the Austro–Hungarian Empire. Galicia, including Lviv, was to be taken over by the Russians, the „Kingdom of Poland” — under the name of the General Governorate — Germany. The resultant „war was one of the greatest calamities and dramas of humanity in history, for two atheistic and anti–Christian ideologies — national and international socialism — rejected God and His fifth Decalogue commandment: Thou shall not kill!” (Abp Stanislaus Gądecki, 01.09.2019). The decisions taken — backed up by the betrayal of the formal allies of Poland, France and Germany, which on 12.09.1939, at a joint conference in Abbeville, decided not to provide aid to attacked Poland and not to take military action against Germany (a clear breach of treaty obligations with Poland) — were on 28.09.1939 slightly altered and made more precise when a treaty on „German–Russian boundaries and friendship” was agreed by the same murderous signatories. One of its findings was establishment of spheres of influence in Central and Eastern Europe and in consequence IV partition of Poland. In one of its secret annexes agreed, that: „the Signatories will not tolerate on its respective territories any Polish propaganda that affects the territory of the other Side. On their respective territories they will suppress all such propaganda and inform each other of the measures taken to accomplish it”. The agreements resulted in a series of meeting between two genocidal organization representing both sides — German Gestapo and Russian NKVD when coordination of efforts to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and Polish leading classes (in Germany called «Intelligenzaktion», in Russia took the form of Katyń massacres) where discussed. Resulted in deaths of hundreds of thousands of Polish intelligentsia, including thousands of priests presented here, and tens of millions of ordinary people,. The results of this Russian–German pact lasted till 1989 and are still in evidence even today. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.09.30]
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Pius XI's encyclicals: Facing the creation of two totalitarian systems in Europe, which seemed to compete with each other, though there were more similarities than contradictions between them, Pope Pius XI issued in 03.1937 (within 5 days) two encyclicals. In the „Mit brennender Sorge” (Eng. „With Burning Concern”) published on 14.03.1938, condemned the national socialism prevailing in Germany. The Pope wrote: „Whoever, following the old Germanic–pre–Christian beliefs, puts various impersonal fate in the place of a personal God, denies the wisdom of God and Providence […], whoever exalts earthly values: race or nation, or state, or state system, representatives of state power or other fundamental values of human society, […] and makes them the highest standard of all values, including religious ones, and idolizes them, this one […] is far from true faith in God and from a worldview corresponding to such faith”. On 19.03.1937, published „Divini Redemptoris” (Eng. „Divine Redeemer”), in which criticized Russian communism, dialectical materialism and the class struggle theory. The Pope wrote: „Communism deprives man of freedom, and therefore the spiritual basis of all life norms. It deprives the human person of all his dignity and any moral support with which he could resist the onslaught of blind passions […] This is the new gospel that Bolshevik and godless communism preaches as a message of salvation and redemption of humanity”… Pius XI demanded that the established human law be subjected to the natural law of God , recommended the implementation of the ideal of a Christian state and society, and called on Catholics to resist. Two years later, National Socialist Germany and Communist Russia came together and started World War II. (more on: www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
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[access: 2023.05.28]
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Pomeranian Philomaths: Secret societies of Polish youth, aiming at self–education, patriotic in form and content, functioning 1830‑1920, mainly in secondary schools — gymnasia — in Pomerania around Vistula river (Gdańsk Pomerania and Chełmno county), in Prussian–occupied Polish territories (one of the partitions of Poland). On 08.01.1901 Germans conducted a series of interrogations of students at Chełmno, Brodnica and Toruń gymnasiums. On 09‑12.09.1901 the first of court trials of Polish students from those gymnasiums and students of Theological Seminary in Pelplin was held in Toruń. 1 person was sentenced to 3 months in prison, 1 to 2 months, 3 to 6 weeks, 7 to 3 weeks, 2 to 2 weeks, 19 to a week, 2 to 1 day, 10 were reprimanded. 15 were cleared. More definitive penalties were relegations from the schools with so‑called wolf’s ticket, forbidding sentenced students to continue secondary and higher studies in Prussia (Germany). Among those penalized were a few future Catholic priests — those were able to continue their education for the Chełmno diocese bishop, Bp August Rosentreter, refused to relegate students from Theological Seminary. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.11.18]
)

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bibliographical:
Martyrology of the Polish Roman Catholic clergy under nazi occupation in 1939‑1945”, Victor Jacewicz, John Woś, vol. I‑V, Warsaw Theological Academy, 1977‑1981
Biographical dictionary of priests of the Chełmno diocese ordained in the years 1821‑1920”, Henry Mross, Pelplin, 1995
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