Politycy czy urzędnicy? Rzecz o starostach Lubelszczyzny lat 1918–1920
Politicians or Clerks? About Starosts in the Lublin’s Region Between 1918 and 1920

Summary/Abstract: At the threshold of Poland’s regaining independence, the Lublin Region was an exceptional area. Therein were the developed political structures of left-wing parties and the Polish Military Organisation, the Austrian occupation which was less severe in political terms than the German occupation, and the administrative centre of which was Lublin. All these created favourable conditions for the establishment of Ignacy Daszyński’s government in Lublin. The subject of this article is the staffing of starosts, i.e. officials at the head of poviats. While reflecting on the criteria for appointing people to this office in 1918–1921, the author shows that during the left-wing governments (Ignacy Daszyński and Jędrzej Moraczewski), starosts were usually appointed by activists from left-wing and independence organisations. Some political activists, unprepared for official functions, resigned from their posts, which opened the way to a relative stabilisation of the staff of the office in question in the Lublin area, which took place after 1921.

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