Antoni Jan Goetz

In the 1930s he was the sole owner of the Okocim Brewery in Brzesko, Poland, which had been founded by his grandfather, Johann Evangelist Götz, and a delegate to the Sejm (parliament) of the Second Polish Republic.

He was the son of Jan Albin Goetz-Okocimski, a baron of the Hapsburg Empire, which had acquired Galicia in the first partition of Poland, and the grandson of Johann Evangelist Götz.

He grew up in a neo-baroque palace built by his father, commissioned from the eminent Austrian architects Hermann Helmer and Ferdinand Fellner, surrounded by an English garden.

The event was attended by family, politicians, historians, members of the Polish armed forces, executives of Okocim and Carlsberg breweries, and citizens of Brzesko.

He made his way to France where he served as an adjutant at the Polish "Centrum Wyszkolenia Artylerii" (Center for Artillery Studies) in Brittany at Camp Coëtquidan.