Zygmunt Hofmokl-Ostrowski

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Tomb of Zygmunt Hofmokl-Ostrowski at Old Powazki in Warsaw Zygmunt Hofmokl-Ostrowski (born December 6, 1873 in Vienna, died 1963) - Polish lawyer, graduated law at the University of Lviv, then practiced lawyer and opened a law firm in Vienna.

During the First World War he fought in the ranks of the Austrian army and then in the Polish army. After the war he opened his law firm in Cracow, but soon moved to Warsaw, where he gained fame as a criminal defender, gifted with unusual oratorial talent, but also an explosive temperament. Among others In the process before the District Court in Warsaw, he fired six shots from a revolver after a picture from a police officer who witnessed the case. The court acknowledged that it was under the influence of strong emotions, sentenced him to a week of detention. In turn, during the process of Piasecki editor Hofmokl-Ostrowski was sentenced to one month of detention and two years of probation for abuse of the word. In the interwar period he lived in Milanówek near Warsaw.

The author of the popular pre-war issue of the Criminal Code with Supreme Court ruling, often used by attorneys.

During World War II, the patron was imprisoned in the Gestapo custody in Milanówek and at the Lublin Castle. After the war he continued his occupation, famous for his defense of the repeated assassin from Cracow Mazurkiewicz, where the patron, according to the axiology of that period, showed that unprofitable persons were killed in socialist society and used the thesis that Mazurkiewicz was a born murderer, a type of criminal predisposition. Despite his brilliant defense, Mazurkiewicz was sentenced to death.

He died in 1963 at the age of ninety.

The lawyer's profession was also performed by his brother, Stanisław Jerzy, son of Zygmunt and Gabriel's daughter (after husband Mycielska).

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