Timeline of Poznań

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Poznań, Poland.

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Prior to 19th century
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Timeline

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19th century
Entrence of Jan Henryk Dąbrowski to Poznań, painting of Jan Gładysz from 1809
Polish Theatre
  • 1875 – Polish Theatre[7] and Stare Zoo established.
  • 1879 – Poznań Central Station opens.[2]
  • 1885
    • Historical Society of Posen Province founded.[8]
    • Population: 68,315.[1]
  • 1891 – Richard Witting becomes mayor.
  • 1895
    • Drukarnia i Księgarnia św. Wojciecha publisher in business.[9]
    • Population: 73,239.[1]
  • 1896 – Piotrowo and Berdychowo become part of city.[10]
  • 1898 – Electric tramway begins operating.[2]
  • 1900 – Górczyn, Jeżyce, Łazarz, and Wilda become part of city.[11]

20th century

1900–1939
First session of the Polish Provincial Sejm in Poznań (1918)

World War II (1939–1945)
Arthur Greiser, Wilhelm Frick and Walter Petzel in German-occupied Poznań in November 1939
  • 1939
    • September: During the invasion of Poland at the beginning of World War II, near Słupca, the Germans bombed a train with Polish civilians fleeing the Wehrmacht from Poznań.[15]
    • Poznań Nightingales (choir) secretly founded.
    • 10 September: German troops invade Poznań, beginning of German occupation.[2]
    • 10 September: Inhabitants of Poznań were among the victims of a massacre of Poles committed by German troops in Zdziechowa.[16]
    • 12 September: The Einsatzkommando 1 and Einsatzgruppe VI paramilitary death squads entered the city to commit various crimes against the population.[17]
    • September: Mass arrests of Poles by the occupying forces.[18]
    • September: City made the headquarters of the central district of the Selbstschutz, which task was to commit atrocities against Poles during the German invasion of Poland.[19]
    • October: Infamous Fort VII concentration camp established by the Germans for imprisonment of Poles arrested in the city and region during the Intelligenzaktion.[20]
    • 16, 18, 20, 26, 28 October: Mass executions of 71 Polish prisoners in Fort VII. Among the victims were teachers, merchants, farmers, craftsmen, workers, doctors, lawyers, editors of Polish newspapers.[20]
    • 8, 18, 29 November: Further executions of over 30 Polish prisoners in Fort VII. Among the victims were merchants, craftsmen, editors of Polish newspapers.[21]
    • 12–16 November: German police and SS massacred 60 Polish prisoners of the Fort VII concentration camp in the forest of Dębienko near Poznań.[22]
    • December: Further executions of 14 Polish craftsmen in Fort VII.[21]
    • The Germans massacred over 630 Polish prisoners of the Fort VII concentration camp, incl. 70 students of Poznań universities and colleges and 70 nuns, in the forest of Dopiewiec near Poznań.[21]
    • Ernst Damzog, former commander of the Einsatzgruppe V, was appointed the police inspector for both Sicherheitspolizei and Sicherheitsdienst in German-occupied Poznań.[23]
Bunker no. 16 in Fort VII, used by the German occupiers as an improvised gas chamber
  • 1940
    • January: Further executions of 67 Poles in Fort VII. Among the victims were teachers, local officials, engineers, artists, priests, professors and merchants.[21]
    • 27 January, 20 February, 5 March, 25 April: The Germans massacred over 700 Polish prisoners of the Fort VII concentration camp, incl. 120 women, in the forest of Dębienko.[22]
    • February, April and May: Further executions of 21 Poles in Fort VII.[21]
    • Early 1940: The Germans massacred over 2,000 Polish prisoners of the Fort VII concentration camp in the forest of Dopiewiec.[21]
    • 20 April: Over 100 Poles were arrested by the Germans in the city in just one day.[24]
    • 1 August: Stalag XXI-D prisoner-of-war camp for Allied POWs established by the occupiers.
  • 1941 – The German labor office in Poznań demanded that children as young as 12 register for work, but it is known that even ten-year-old children were forced to work.[25]
  • 1943
  • 1944
    • April: Fort VII concentration camp dissolved.
    • Aerial bombing by U.S. forces.[2]
  • 1945
    • January: Stalag XXI-D POW camp dissolved.
    • January–February: Battle of Poznań.
    • End of German occupation.

1945–1990s
Burial of Polish composer Feliks Nowowiejski in 1946
Saint John's Fair in 1978

21st century
Poznań Old Town in 2012

See also

References
  1. Britannica 1910.
  2. Łęcki 1997.
  3. "Drukarnia Kolegium Towarzystwa Jezusowego w Poznaniu 1677-1773". Wielkopolska Biblioteka Cyfrowa. April 1997. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  4. Haydn 1910.
  5. Townsend 1867.
  6. "Poznań". Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. Archived from the original on October 2014.
  7. Don Rubin, ed. (2001). "Poland". World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre. Vol. 1: Europe. Routledge. p. 634+. ISBN 9780415251570.
  8. Königliche Museen zu Berlin (1904). Kunsthandbuch für Deutschland (in German) (6th ed.). Georg Reimer.
  9. Europa World Year Book 2004. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1857432533.
  10. "Statystyczna Karta Historii Poznania" (PDF). Główny Urząd Statystyczny. June 2008. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  11. "Statystyczna Karta Historii Poznania" (PDF). Główny Urząd Statystyczny. June 2008. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  12. "Statystyczna Karta Historii Poznania" (PDF). Główny Urząd Statystyczny. June 2008. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  13. "Statystyczna Karta Historii Poznania" (PDF). Główny Urząd Statystyczny. June 2008. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  14. "Statystyczna Karta Historii Poznania" (PDF). Główny Urząd Statystyczny. June 2008. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  15. Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. p. 89.
  16. Wardzyńska (2009), p. 91
  17. Wardzyńska (2009), p. 113
  18. Wardzyńska (2009), p. 116
  19. Wardzyńska (2009), p. 63
  20. Wardzyńska (2009), p. 190
  21. Wardzyńska (2009), p. 191
  22. Wardzyńska (2009), p. 192
  23. Wardzyńska (2009), p. 54
  24. Wardzyńska (2009), p. 213
  25. Kołakowski, Andrzej (2020). "Zbrodnia bez kary: eksterminacja dzieci polskich w okresie okupacji niemieckiej w latach 1939-1945". In Kostkiewicz, Janina (ed.). Zbrodnia bez kary... Eksterminacja i cierpienie polskich dzieci pod okupacją niemiecką (1939–1945) (in Polish). Kraków: Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Biblioteka Jagiellońska. p. 74.
  26. Ledniowski, Krzysztof; Gola, Beata (2020). "Niemiecki obóz dla małoletnich Polaków w Łodzi przy ul. Przemysłowej". In Kostkiewicz, Janina (ed.). Zbrodnia bez kary... Eksterminacja i cierpienie polskich dzieci pod okupacją niemiecką (1939–1945) (in Polish). Kraków: Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Biblioteka Jagiellońska. pp. 147, 158.
  27. "Poland Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
  28. Bernard A. Cook, ed. (2013). "Chronology of Major Political Events". Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-17939-7.
  29. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.
  30. "Mayors of the City of Poznań". Poznań City Hall. Retrieved 28 November 2013.
  31. Tina Rosenberg (October 9, 2014), "In This World Cup, the Goal is a Better Life", New York Times
  32. "Otwarcie Konsulatu Honorowego Estonii w Poznaniu". warsaw.mfa.ee (in Polish). Retrieved 2 April 2022.

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