Mieczysław Thugutt

Mieczysław Thugutt (; 20 May 1902 – 8 March 1979) was Polish politician and refugee who lived in the United Kingdom.

Early life Thugutt was born in 1902 in Ćmielów, Congress Poland to Maryla Kozanecka and Stanisław Thugutt. As a member of the Polish Socialist Party, he took part in the Third Silesian Uprising, having just turned 20 years old. Following the conflict he went on to study mechanical engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology.

Career On graduation, Thuggut became an assistant to one of its professors Michał Broszko, before taking a job as an engineer at the Marconi Company in 1929. The following year he started a position at the firm of Lilpop, Rau i Loewenstein, where he continued working until 1939.

Guesthouse in Brockley After the war Thugutt opened and ran a guesthouse in Brockley. In 1947 Zofia and Stefan Korboński stayed at hiss guesthouse on their way to exile in the United States. where he lived with his mother (until her death in 1949) his second wife, and two children from his first marriage.