Augustyn Łukosz

Augustyn Łukosz (17 August 1884 – 27 October 1940) was a Polish national activist and socialist politician. He was a member of the Polish Socialist Workers Party, the social democratic party active amongst the Polish minority in Czechoslovakia. In 1935 Łukosz founded the Polish Social Democratic Party (PPSD).

Life After graduating from the school in Stonawa, Łukosz worked as a coal miner in a mine in Karwina, and later as a railwayman, working as a switchman at the train station in Łąki nad Olzą. Łukosz was already in his youth engaged in the workers' movement, becoming a member of the Polish Social Democratic Party of Galicia (PPS-DG) and later the Polish Socialist Party. After division of Cieszyn Silesia, he stayed in Czechoslovakia, where he co-founded the Polish Socialist Workers Party (PSPR). He represented its faction opposed to the cooperation with communists. Łukosz contributed to the PSPR magazine Robotnik Śląski (Silesian Worker) and co-founded the Polish Educational-Sporting Association "Siła" in Český Těšín. He advocated the cooperation with the rest of the Polish organizations in Czechoslovakia, whereas the PSPR leadership followed the cooperation with the Czech social democrats. On 16 April 1940, he was moved to Dachau concentration camp, and later to Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, where he died from exhaustion on 27 October 1940.