Jan Kustos was a Silesian politician, philosophy magister, press editor, founder and chairman of the Union of Upper Silesians Defence from 1925-1932, spokesman rights national minority for Silesians

Silesians

Silesians , are the inhabitants of Silesia in Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic. A small diaspora community also exists in Karnes County, Texas in the USA....

 in 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...

, member of town council in Katowice

Katowice

Katowice is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, on the Kłodnica and Rawa rivers . Katowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, about north of the Silesian Beskids and about southeast of the Sudetes Mountains.It is the central district of the Upper Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 2...

 in the period 1926-1927, founder of the Trade Union of Upper Silesians in 1927, and a representative of Silesian nationality in the time of converstion with representant League of Nations

League of Nations

The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace...

 in 1929.

See also

• Union of Upper Silesians
  Union of Upper Silesians
  The Union of Upper Silesians was a mass movement for the independence of Upper Silesia. The lands of Prussian Upper Silesia and Austrian Silesia, which existed from January 1919 to 1924 within the borders of Germany, then in the borders of the international plebiscite territory, constituted Upper...
  
  
• Ewald Latacz
  Ewald Latacz
  Ewald Latacz was Silesian politician, doctor of law, lawyer in Racibórz since 1913 and Wodzisław Śląski, chairman of Workers Council in Wodzisław Śląski and co-founder secret Upper Silesian Committee in 1918, civil law notary since 1919, co-founder and leader Union of Upper Silesians in the period...
  
  
• Joseph Musiol
  Joseph Musiol
  Joseph Musiol was a Silesian politician. He served as secretary of the Catholic Trade Union, as a member of the town council in Bytom, and as leader of a local group in Bytom...
  
  
• Silesian People's Party
  Silesian People's Party
  The Silesian People’s Party was a political organization in Cieszyn Silesia that existed from 1909 to 1938 in Austrian Silesia, which later became international plebiscite territory and finally part of Czechoslovakia. The party included mainly Slavic people, who saw themselves as members of a...
  
  
• Józef Kożdoń
  Józef Kożdoń
  Józef Kożdoń was Silesian autonomist politician.-Biography:...
  
  
• Theofil Kupka
  Theofil Kupka
  Theofil Kupka was a Silesian politician.- Biography :...
  
  
• Silesian Autonomy Movement
  Silesian Autonomy Movement
  The Silesian Autonomy Movement is a movement officially declaring its support for the autonomy of Silesia as part of a unified Europe. The association was founded in January 1990 by Rudolf Kołodziejczyk and is based in the Polish part of Upper Silesia...
  
  

Sources

• Piotr Dobrowolski, Ugrupowania i kierunki separatystyczne na Górnym Śląsku i w Cieszyńskiem w latach 1918-1939, Warszawa – Kraków 1972.
• Dariusz Jerczyński
  Dariusz Jerczyński
  Dariusz Jerczyński is a Silesian politician and historical writer.-Biography:Dariusz Jerczyński has authored books about the history of Silesia, historical articles in the magazines Czas Górnośląski and Jaskółka Śląska. From 2001 to 2007, Jerczyński was a member of the Silesian Autonomy Movement...
  
  , Historia Narodu Śląskiego. (History of Silesian Nation), second edition (implemented and corrected), Zabrze 2006.
• Guido Hitze, Carl Ulitzka (1873-1953) oder Oberschlesien zwischen den Weltkriegen, Düsseldorf 2002.