Antoni Jan Goetz

Portrait of Antoni Jan Goetz by Jacek Malczewski.

Antoni Jan Goetz (also Antoni Jan Goetz-Okocimski) (born December 17, 1895 in Kraków, died October 31, 1962 in Nairobi), was a Polish industrialist, politician and activist. In the 1930s he was the sole owner of the Okocim Brewery in Brzesko, Poland. He was a delegate to the Sejm (parliament) of the Second Polish Republic.

Antoni Jan Goetz was the son of Jan Albin Goetz and the grandson of Johann Evangelist Götz.

Political activity

Antoni Jan Goetz was a delegate to the Polish Sejm between 1935 and 1938.

After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, Goetz, together with his family fled Poland on September 5, fearing repressions from the Nazis, who subsequently took over the Okocim Brewery. He made his way to France where he served as an adjutant at the Polish "Centrum Wyszkolenia Artylerii" (Center for Artillery Studies) in Brittany at Camp Coëtquidan.[1]

He died in 1962 in Nairobi, Kenya from a tropical disease.[1]

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