Polish students at the Technische Hochschule zu Danzig | Faculty of Electrical and Control Engineering at the Gdańsk University of Technology

In the interwar period, the number of Poles among the students of the Gdańsk scientist gradually increased, reaching over 30% of the number of people in some years. Most Poles studied at the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Electrical Engineering Department. In the latter, in the years 1924-1927, approximately 60-70 students studied each semester who were members of a Polish self-help organization - Bratnia Pomoc.

In 1926, with the support of Bratnia Pomoc, the Circle of Mechanics and Electrical Engineers of Polish Students of the Gdańsk University of Technology was established. Its aim was to provide comprehensive assistance in studies, carried out by extending knowledge related to the future profession, organizing scientific trips, and collecting professional literature.

Members of the Society organized in the years 1926-1927 trips, incl. for the construction of the port in Gdynia, to the municipal power plant in Gdańsk, to the radio broadcasting station in Jelitkowo, to aviation workshops in Puck, to weaving factories in Łódź, to the chocolate factory in Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz, to the Pomeranian National Power Plant in Gródek (whose founder and director was Alfons Hoffmann graduate).

In the period up to 1939, about 1,200 Poles studied at the Technische Hochschule zu Danzig, of which about 250 graduated. Many of the university graduates linked their professional lives with electrical engineering, including: Alfons Hoffmann - a pioneer of the Polish power industry, professor of the Gdańsk University of Technology, Kazimierz Bieliński - director of the Municipal Electricity Plant in Gdynia, the first president of the SEP Sea Coast Department, Jerzy Julian Kryński - professor Warsaw University of Technology, Jan Tadeusz Piasecki - professor of Gdańsk University of Technology, Mieczysław Rodkiewicz - professor of Gdańsk University of Technology, Edmund Romer - professor of Silesian University of Technology, Jan Trojak - professor of Wrocław University of Technology, Józef Węglarz - professor of Poznań University of Technology, Stefan Jerzy Lebson - associate professor of Warsaw University of Technology.

Poles studying at the Technische Hochschule zu Danzig in the interwar period were forced to interrupt their studies in March 1939, after the escalation of anti-Polish protests in Gdańsk.

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