Franciszek Kotus-Jankowski

Franciszek Kotus-Jankowski (; 28 January 1891 – 19 January 1958) was a Polish politician and communist activist. From 1945 to 1946, he was the mayor of Gdańsk, Poland, as a member of the Polish Workers' Party. He was also a Marxist revolutionary activist, being a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, and a participant of the October Revolution in 1917 in the Russian Empire

Biography

He was born as Franciszek Kotus on 28 January 1891 in Warsaw in the Kingdom of Poland, which was a part of the Russian Empire.

He was a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, a Marxist political party. He also participated in revolutionary activities, for which he was arrested on several occasions, and in 1911, he was sentenced to decoration to Vyatka Governorate. He was also held in prisions in Warsaw and Saratov. During the First World War, he worked for the Council for Assistance to War Victims, and was also active in the activities of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania in the Saint Petersburg Governorate. In 1917, he fought in the October Revolution on the insurrectionist side. During his revolutionary activities, he used pseudonyms Jankowski and Stefan, later addopting the latter as part of his surname, as Kotus-Jankowski.

Awards and decorations Order of the Banner of Labour, 2nd class Knight's Cross of the Order of the Banner of Labour