Jan Kustos

Jan Kustos (September 5, 1893 in Syrynia, Wodzisław Śląski – July 28, 1932 in Katowice) 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 in Poland, member of town council in Katowice 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 conversation with representant League of Nations in 1929.

See also

• Union of Upper Silesians
• Ewald Latacz
• Joseph Musiol
• Silesian People's Party
• Józef Kożdoń
• Theofil Kupka
• Silesian Autonomy Movement

Sources

• Piotr Dobrowolski, Ugrupowania i kierunki separatystyczne na Górnym Śląsku i w Cieszyńskiem w latach 1918-1939, Warszawa – Kraków 1972.
• Dariusz Jerczyński, 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.