Juliusz Pilaski

Fryderyk Wilhelm Juliusz Pilaski was a Polish lawyer, landowner, and a member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation.

Biography

Pilaski was born in Poznań to a Germanized, Protestant family of Alfons Pilaski, the owner of Zieliniec. Having attended Saint Mary Magdalene Gymnasium in Poznań, he went on to study law in Berlin. From 1831 to 1861 he worked at the District Court in Posen as assessor, judge, and a councilman.
After a push by Polish citizens of Poznań, Pilaski was elected, along with 13 other Poles, to its city council. He was a member of the Landtag of Prussia continuously from 1849 to 1882, first in the House of Lords until 1853, and later on in the House of Representatives, where he was one of the most active representatives of the Polish Parliamentary Group. During the debate on what would become the 1850 Constitution of Prussia, Pilaski, together with other Polish parliamentarians, demanded an inclusion of a guarantee for the autonomy of the Grand Duchy of Posen, and adoption of a law protecting Polish minority rights. Their demands were ultimately denied.
In 1851 he sold Nietuszkowo, which he had bought at an earlier point from Wawrzyniec Grabowski, to. He would also go on to sell Zieliniec in 1881.
Pilaski was elected to the Reichstag of the North German Confederation in February 1867 as the representative of Odolanów and Ostrzeszów. He voted against the North German Constitution. He was reelected in August 1867 in the same district, representing Polish Parliamentary Group. He died in Poznań in 1883, where he was buried at an evangelical cemetery.