Witold Chodźko – lekarz, polityk, wolnomularz

Waldemar Gniadek

Summary
This paper presents the life and work of Witold Chodźko. He came from an old noble family of highly branched in Lithuania. Eight members of his family over the last hundred and fifty years has been distinguished for the Performing Arts and the Polish science. Chodźko graduated from Faculty of Medicine at the University of Warsaw. He was a well-known psychiatrist and neurologist, social and political activist, freemason. After graduation, he went to practice abroad to pursue their interests in the field of neurology. Acted in an alcohol awareness movement. In the years 1915-1918 worked in hospitals psychiatrics. In 1918 after Poland regained its independence
Head of State Jozef Piłsudski named Witold Chodźko Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Health, entrusting him in charge of this department. In the years 1918-1923 he was a Minister or Deputy Minister of Public Health in eleven government offices and in the years 1922-1938 he represented Poland several times in the General Assembly of the League of Nations. In the years 1920-1923 and 1926-1930, he served as President of the Polish Psychiatric Association. At the beginning of the twenties was initiated into Freemasonry, belonged to the lodge “Copernicus” in Warsaw as an integral part of the Grand Lodge “Poles Together”. During the Nazi occupation worked in the field of health issues in the Polish Welfare Committee of the Capital City of Warsaw, and was a Deputy Chairman of the Capital Committee of Self-Help social. After the end of World War II in 1945 Witold Chodźko actively involved in the current reconstruction of the Polish state for his activities in the field of scientific and socio-political received many national and international awards, died January 17, 1954.

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