Bolesław Drobner

Bolesław Drobner (28 June 1883 – 31 March 1968) was a Polish politician.

Biography Drobner was born into an assimilated Jewish middle-class family in Kraków, and graduated from the King John III Sobieski Gymnasium. After studies in Berlin, Lwów, and Zürich, he earned a doctorate in chemistry at the University of Freiburg. Drobner joined the Polish Social Democratic Party of Galicia in 1898, and then the Polish Socialist Party; during his time abroad, he was also a member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland.

In 1945, Drobner became the first Polish mayor (president) of Wrocław (former Breslau) and was deputy to State National Council and then to Polish Sejm (national legislature). He was a senior marshal of the latter institution in 1957, 1961 and 1965.

He was also a notable supporter of the artistic group Piwnica pod Baranami.