Bruno Kurowski was a German

Germany

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 lawyer and politician of the Free City of Danzig

Free City of Danzig

The Free City of Danzig was a semi-autonomous city-state that existed between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig and surrounding areas....

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Biography

Kurowski was born in Marienburg

Malbork

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, West Prussia

West Prussia

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 and studied law at the University of Königsberg

University of Königsberg

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. He and his wife Aenne Kurowski-Schmitz practised a lawyer's and notary's office in Danzig (today Gdańsk).

Im January 1919 Kurowski was elected as a member of the Centre Party

Centre Party (Germany)

The German Centre Party was a Catholic political party in Germany during the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic. Formed in 1870, it battled the Kulturkampf which the Prussian government launched to reduce the power of the Catholic Church...

 to the Weimar National Assembly

Weimar National Assembly

The Weimar National Assembly governed Germany from February 6, 1919 to June 6, 1920 and drew up the new constitution which governed Germany from 1919 to 1933, technically remaining in effect even until the end of Nazi rule in 1945...

 for the Danzig constituency but had to withdraw after the foundation of the Free City of Danzig.

He became the Chairman of the Danzig branch of the Catholic Centre Party, which he represented as a fraction leader in the Volkstag

Volkstag

The Volkstag was the parliament of the Free City of Danzig between 1919 and 1939.-History:After World War I Danzig became a Free City under the protection of the League of Nations....

 parliament and became a Senator in 1926.

Kurowski was a consul general and an honorary consul of the Federal State of Austria

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, a post for which he was charged with High treason in 1937 by the Nazi government of the Free City. The trial was stopped and Kurowski released from prison after the Centre Party refused to protest against its "voluntary" dissolution to the League of Nations

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While his wife remained in Danzig, Kurowski moved to Austria and, after the Anschluss

Anschluss

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, to Italy. He returned to Germany and lived at St. Tönis, the birthplace of his wife but was again arrested. After a further release he was hidden at the Oliva Abbey

Oliwa Cathedral

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and died in a hospital in Danzig.