The activist of Jewish left,a leader of German socialists in Polish Silesia
Abstract
Zygmunt Glücksmann was one of leaders of Deutsche Sozialistische Arbeitspartei
(DSAP – German Socialist Labour Party of Poland) in Polish interwar Silesia. He came
from assimilated Jewish community, yet close to German culture. After the end of
First World War Glücksmann ran a law firm in Bielsko, he frequently provided free
consultations to Polish and German unemployed. In the twenties he also acted as a councilman in this city. In year 1930 he was elected a member of the Silesian Parliament. For a short period of time Glücksmann was associated with both Polish and Jewish socialists. He stayed a frontier man, though still devoted to his ideas. However,
the successful spreading of Nazism made him quit his activity. In the late thirties
people like him were not welcome in nationalist Europe. After the outbreak of the
Second World War Glücksmann fled to east, where he died in year 1942 in Bukhara.
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