The first “Sokół” (Falcon) club in Germany was set up at the end of the 1880s to promote the education of Polish citizens by means of sporting disciplines and at the same time to emphasise common nati...
The rector’s office of the Polish Catholic mission was set up in 1976 to replace the Bishop’s Curia which was set up in 1945. It is the central coordination office for the spiritual care of Polish cit...
After the end of the Second World War in 1945 many Polish citizens in the Allied occupation zones decided not to return to their homeland on political grounds. These included members of Polish armed f...
The bank was set up on 8th February 1933 by a credit cooperative which was organised in the “Union of Polish Cooperatives in Germany” (Związek Spółdzielni Polskich w Niemczech). Start capital amounted...
The Polish grammar school in Marienwerder (Kwidzyń) was set up in 1937 after many previous efforts to do so. Building began in 1934. The work was financed by the Slavic Bank in Berlin and completed in...
Towards the end of the 19th century during the period when the Polish movement in Berlin grew strongly, it became ever more necessary to have a newspaper which would cater for the Polish citizens who ...
One of the most important projects undertaken by the Union of Poles in Germany was the preparation and printing of the “Lexicon of Polish Life in Germany”.
Roman Witold Ingarden, the greatest Polish phenomenologist, can be placed in the ranks of classic philosophers. His Opus Magnum “Controversy on the Existence of the World” can be compared with Aristop...
The first congress of Poles in Germany took place in Berlin on 6th March 1938. It was the largest manifestation of Poles in Germany. Around 5000 people from different parts of Germany took part in the...
The “Kulturwehr” was the organ of the “Union of National Minorities“, which united the leading organisations of the Polish, Danish, Sorb, Friesland and Lithuanian minorities in Germany.
His football career would have put all the Klos’ and Podolskis in the shade. The way he played would have made him a superstar today like Messi, Ronaldo and Lewandowski. For he was the leading goalsco...
The Polish football team has never won a match against Germany, and on the day of the semi-final match in the 1974 World Cup they were never so close. But instead of going down in history as the first...
According to the Berlin tourist guide Tomek, “the Reichstag stands on Polish ground”. This proud remark arouses particular interest in tourists from Poland.
After losing the battle of Maciejowice 1794 the Polish supreme commander Tadeusz Kościuszko is supposed to have spoken these words “Finis Poloniae” (The end of Poland).
How must a person feel when he is bombarded with whistles of hatred – and that during the Olympic Games? The pole vault athlete Władysław Kozakiewicz can tell us from first-hand experience. He was in ...
He was the first saxophone student in Poland at the Cracow music school. And in Germany he was the first saxophone professor at the Würzburg Academy of Music. Between the two dates lay a tumultuous Po...
Polish voices can be heard in one particular corner of Cologne Cathedral. Here people gather in front of the painted stone table of a mediaeval tomb and a classical wall tomb in the cathedral chapel o...
