Wladislaw Taczanowski (August 12, 1825 – March 13, 1893) was an elected member of the German

German Empire

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 Reichstag

Reichstag (German Empire)

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 in Berlin

Berlin

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 from March 1871 to January 1877 as a representative of the Polenpartei ("Polish Party"). A nobleman and member of the Taczanowski

Taczanowski

Taczanowski is the surname of a Polish szlachta family from Poznań bearing the Jastrzębiec Coat of Arms and the motto: Plus penser que dire. They took their name from their estate Taczanów in the 15th century and by the 19th century were among the leading magnates in partitioned-Poland...

 magnate dynasty, he is regarded as one of the influential Prussian

Kingdom of Prussia

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-Polish

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...

 politicians active during the early phase of the German Empire.

Taczanowski was born in Szypłów near Śrem

Srem

Śrem is a town on the Warta river in central Poland. It has been situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship since 1999; from 1975 to 1998 it was part of the Poznań Voivodeship...

 in the Grand Duchy of Posen.