Prof. Teodor Mieczysław Vieweger And Academic Lodz Before 1945

On 24 May 1945, the President of the State National Council, Bolesław Bierut, Prime Minister Edward Osóbka-Morawski and the Minister of Education Stanisław Skrzeszewski signed a decree on the establishment of the University of Lodz. Two days earlier, on 22 May, Teodor Vieweger died in a car accident near Ożarów Mazowiecki, on the way to Lodz. He was returning from the capital, where he was finalising the establishment of the University of Lodz and presumably received the nomination for the rector¹. Due to a tragic accident, the rector's scepter of the newly established university was taken over by prof. Tadeusz Kotarbiński and today he is mentioned as the first rector of the University of Lodz.