Działalność społeczno-polityczna Aleksandra Adelmana (1859–1942)

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SOCIO-POLITICAL ACTIVITY OF ALEKSANDER ADELMAN (1859–1942)Aleksander Adelman (1859–1942) was born in Mikołajów, studied at the Lvov Polytechnic, in 1879 graduated from the Vienna Polytechnic. Initially he worked as a chemist in sugar refineries in the Russian Empire. In 1886 he directed the oil refinery in Lvov. Subsequently he worked in the Galicia treasury administration. In 1891 he became the inspector of alcohol distillation in the District Treasury Management in Stanisławów, and since 1898 – the inspector of technical control. In 1908 he left the administration and moved to Krakow – he made a contribution to the development of the Krakow Guild of Merchants. In the years 1922–1930 he was a senior of the organisation. Owing to him is the Guild fusion with Merchants and Trade Youth Association, the renewal of “Kupiec Polski” and the development of the local trade education. He was a member of the city and regional board of Christian Democrats. He contributed significantly to the activities of self-government: he was an alderman of Krakow in the years 1916–1924 and 1926–1931. In the period of commissary government in Krakow (1924–26) he was a part of the Advisory Council of the government commissar. He was the initiator and proposer of many important resolutions (e.g. creation of Jaworzniki Communal Coal Mines, building of houses for workers’ families in the Dębniki district, building of the tomb at the Rakowicki cemetery for legionaries killed at Rokitna). He was authorised to sign economic deals on behalf of the Krakow Council. In 1926 he was the Christian Democrats and National Democrats candidate for the presidency of Krakow. In the years 1923–27 he was a senator for the Krakow voivodship in the Polish Senate of the first term in lieu of the Krakow bishop prince Adam Stefan Sapieha. He was one of the most active senators, engaged in the work of treasury-budget committee; he was its rapporteur and then chairman. After withdrawing from public life he popularised tourism in Małopolska. He died in Krakow at the age of 82; he is buried at the Rakowicki cemetery.