Smigiel
Encyclopedia
Śmigiel ' is a town
in Kościan County
, Greater Poland Voivodeship
, Poland
, with 5,420 inhabitants (2004).
While part of the Prussian
Province of Posen
, the town was administered within Kreis Schmiegel
.
Town
A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...
in Kościan County
Koscian County
Kościan County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Greater Poland Voivodeship, west-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Kościan, which lies...
, Greater Poland Voivodeship
Greater Poland Voivodeship
Wielkopolska Voivodeship , or Greater Poland Voivodeship, is a voivodeship, or province, in west-central Poland. It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Poznań, Kalisz, Konin, Piła and Leszno Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998...
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, with 5,420 inhabitants (2004).
While part of the Prussian
Kingdom of Prussia
The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire...
Province of Posen
Province of Posen
The Province of Posen was a province of Prussia from 1848–1918 and as such part of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918. The area was about 29,000 km2....
, the town was administered within Kreis Schmiegel
Kreis Schmiegel
' was a county in the southern administrative district of Posen, in the Prussian province of Posen. It presently lies in the southern part of Polish region of Greater Poland Voivodeship.-External links:...
.
People
- Wilhelm Salomon FreundWilhelm Salomon FreundWilhelm Salomon Freund was a Jewish German lawyer and politician.Freund was born in Schmiegel in the Province of Posen. He received his law degree from the University of Breslau . He served as a member of the Prussian House of Deputies from 1876–79 and a member of the Reichstag from 1879–81. He...
(1831-1915), politician - Hans JüttnerHans JüttnerHans Jüttner was head of the SS's Main Leadership Office and also an SS Obergruppenführer.-Early life and career:...
(1894-1965), SS general - Georg JohnGeorg JohnGeorg John was a German stage and film actor.-Early life:Georg John was born in Schmiegel, Province of Posen, Imperial Germany.- Career :John began his career around 1900 in smaller stages and traveling theatres...
(1879-1941), actor - Kurt Schmiegel (1988-present), The California Kid