Jan Buzek

Jan Buzek (27 March 1874 – 24 November 1940) was a Polish physician, activist and politician in Zaolzie.

Buzek was born in Końska, Austria-Hungary. He graduated from primary school there, and later from the state gymnasium in Cieszyn and in medicine at Jagiellonian University in Kraków (1901). In 1902 he became a municipal and miners' doctor in Dąbrowa. He worked in Orłowa, where he had a hand in founding a Polish gymnasium. Buzek also lectured at various schools. From a young age he was active in Polish cultural and educational organizations, eventually becoming chairman of many of them, including Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego (The Polish Scouting and Guiding Association) in Czechoslovakia. He was a co-founder of Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe (The Polish People's Party), a Polish political party in Czechoslovakia of a Protestant and liberal character. In 1931 Buzek became a leader of this party. He was a member of the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia in Prague from 1929 to 1935. After the outbreak of World War II, Buzek was incarcerated by the Nazis in the Mauthausen-Gusen and Dachau concentration camps. He died iin the latter on 24 November 1940.