Bogdan Hutten-Czapski

Bogdan was the grandson of two Polish generals – Józef Grzegorz Longin Hutten-Czapski (1760–1810)[2] and Stanisław Kostka Mielżyński (1778–1826),[3] associate of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and servant of the Kingdom of Prussia until the end of WWI.

[8] Between 1862 and 1865 his mother, for health reasons, travelled frequently to Italy, where Bogdan as a small boy learned to speak Italian fluently.

Countess Czapska would spend the summer seasons in resorts in Germany, mainly in Bad Schwalbach, where she befriended Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, wife of the future king of Prussia and the German Emperor Wilhelm I.

[10] He served as Castellan of Posen, Member of the Prussian House of Lords, and unofficial aide and advisor to Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst.

He contributed to the appointment in 1891 of Archbishop Florian Stablewski of Gniezno and Poznan, and was sent on an unofficial mission to Rome regarding the occupation of the Prince-Bishopric of Strasbourg.

He was suitable for confidential missions in Italy like no one else because of his close relations with the long-time prime minister Giovanni Giolitti and the very influential Milanese banker Joël.

After the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria , he carried out a mission to Romania to obtain from the king and the government a promise to keep allied commitments to the central states in case of war.

[8] At the outbreak of the war, on 31 July 1914, the German Emperor (Kaiser), Wilhelm II said to him: "I have decided, if the God would grant us victory, to re-establish an independent Polish State".

During a visit to Warsaw in February 1916, Kaiser Wilhelm reiterated to Czapski, in detail, his plans to make Poland an independent state.

[8] In November 1933, Ignacy Mościcki, The President of the Republic, awarded Bogdan the Polish Order of Polonia Restituta, Commanders Cross with Star.

Though he never married, he named Emeryk August Hutten-Czapski, a distant nephew from the Llituanian Czpaski branch as his heir,[19] who would follow in his footsteps by being very involved with Polish politics, the Vatican and the Knights of Malta.

His book of recollections - "Sechzig Jahre Politik und Gesellschaft" ("Sixty Years in Political and Social Life") was published in Berlin in 1936.