Michał Drzymała

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Birth Date:
13.09.1857
Death date:
25.04.1937
Length of life:
79
Days since birth:
60869
Years since birth:
166
Days since death:
31790
Years since death:
87
Extra names:
Michał Drzymała, Михал Джимала
Categories:
Farmer
Nationality:
 pole
Cemetery:
Miasteczko Krajeńskie, przykościelny cmentarz parafialny

Michał Drzymała (13 September 1857 in Dorf und Rittergut Zdroj near Grätz (Grodzisk Wielkopolski), Kingdom of Prussia - 25 April 1937 in Grabówno near Miasteczko Krajeńskie, Poland) was a Polish peasant, living in the Greater Poland region (or the Grand Duchy of Posen) under the Prussian rule. He is a Polish folk hero because, after he was denied permission to build a house on his own land (only because he was Polish) by the Prussian authorities in the village of Kaisertreu, he bought a circus wagon and turned it into his home. At the time, Prussian law considered any dwelling a house if it remained stationary for more than 24 hours. Drzymała use the mobility of the wagon to exploit the law and to avoid the negative consequences by moving the wagon each day and thus preventing the Prussians the ability to penalize him. His dwelling became known as Drzymała's wagon (Wóz Drzymały), and gained notoriety when this case was described by the Polish and European newspapers, making fun of the Prussian state, and energizing the Poles living under the Prussian authority against it.

 

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        26.04.1886 | Began operations Prussian Settlement Commission

        The Prussian Settlement Commission (German: Königlich Preußische Ansiedlungskommission in den Provinzen Westpreußen und Posen; Polish: Królewska Komisja Osadnicza dla Prus Zachodnich i Poznańskiego) was a Prussian government commission that operated between 1886 and 1924, but actively only until 1918. It was set up by the Imperial Government under Otto von Bismarck to encourage emigration and increase land ownership by Germans in the German Empire's eastern provinces of West Prussia and the Posen as part of the government's expanionist and modernising efforts.

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