„Z Armii na urzędy”. Zdymisjonowani wojskowi w urzędach skarbowych Królestwa Polskiego
“From the Army to Offices”. Servicemen Dismissed from the Army in Tax Offices of the Kingdom of Poland

Author(s): Małgorzata Osiecka
Subject(s): 19th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: military veterans; offices of the Kingdom of Poland; Governmental Commission of Revenue and Treasury; Warsaw Mint; customs offices; border guard; forest guard
Summary/Abstract: After a certain number of years of service the military personnel in the Kingdom of Poland were allowed to retire. They were entitled to pensions then. Those who had left the army earlier were looking for a job in state offices, which gave them the right to remuneration, leave, promotion, inheritance, orders, hereditary or personal nobility titles and pension. The offices employing the ex-servicemen included: the border guard, customs houses, forest offices, the Tobacco Office, the Mint in Warsaw, the Bank of Poland and the departments in the Governmental Commission of Revenue and Treasury: the Mining Department and the Properties and State Forests Department. Veterans worked, for example, as cashiers, forest guards, border guards, registrars in customs houses, salt registrars, collectors, and clerks. The increase in the number of the ex-military applying for a job in the tax offices can be noticed in two periods: after 1815 and in the years of 1832–1856. In the 1820s, their number reached approximately 20 percent of the officials in the Governmental Commission of Revenue and Treasury.

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