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Jan Kobylański (born 21 July 1923 in Rowne, Poland) is a Polish-Paraguayan businessman. He is the founder of the Union of Polish Associations and Organizations in Latin America (pol. ''Unia Stowarzyszeń i Organizacji Polskich w Ameryce Łacińskiej, USOPAŁ'') the largest Polish immigrant organization of South America. He was a founder of one of the world's largest companies involved in editing postage stamps, and coins mintage. He has written books on philately, as well as on the mediation policy of the Roman Curia. He was formerly the honorary consul of Poland to Paraguay, and the honorary consul of Paraguay to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. ==Biography== Kobylański was the son of Polish attorney at law Stanisław Kobylański. In 1943 he was arrested by the Nazis, and imprisoned at Warsaw's infamous Pawiak prison. He was a prisoner in the German concentration camps Mauthausen and Gross Rosen. After the World War II, he moved to Italy, where he produced toothbrushes, and sold kitchen appliances. He became co-owner of the ''Astral Metal Technica'' company in Milan. In 1952, he arrived in Paraguay, taking advantage of President Federico Chaves' immigration program, which allowed 18,000 families from Europe to settle in that country. Soon he won a contract to import kitchen appliances, and another to print postage stamps for the National Postal Service. In the next few years, he developed one of the world's largest stamp printing and coin minting companies. According to Polish journalists Jerzy Morawski and Mikołaj Lizut, Kobylański had a good relationship with Paraguayan president, General Alfredo Stroessner.〔Jerzy Morawski "Mroczne strony milionera" Rzeczpospolita 66/2005 and Mikołaj Lizut "Podwójne życie don Juana" GW 149/2004, Duży Format.〕 Kobylański, however, denies this.〔''I was an honorary consul of the Paraguay for seventeen years, but I never met president Stroessner, for what I have very strong evidence. So, how I could be a friend of him?'' ("Piotr Korycki's interview with mr. Jan Kobylański, president of the USOPAŁ" )〕〔''As you propabably know from the documents, and articles in the Paraguayan press (I am in possession of original copies), president Kobylański never personally met president Alfredo Stroessner (...) It's obvious, that invectives and lies of Mr. Lizut pretend to link Mr. Kobylański with Nazis and Alfredo Stroessner as well'' (Leopold Biłozur, "List otwarty do Adama Michnika" )〕 From 1989 to 2000, Kobylański was an honorary Polish consul in Argentina. He was removed from office by Polish minister of foreign affairs Władysław Bartoszewski, after former Polish ambassadors to Uruguay and Costa Rica accused Kobylański of antisemitism and of acting against Polish interests〔(Gazeta Wyborcza ''Usłyszane o Kobylańskim'' 24.03.2005 )〕 Right wing Polish senators Jan Szafraniec, Ryszard Bender and Czesław Ryszka have since spoken up in his defence. He is a longtime sponsor of privately owned broadcast station Radio Maryja in Poland. Kobylański helped to establish 8 June as the "Day of the Polish Settler in Argentina". He helped to fund monuments to John Paul II in Buenos Aires and Montevideo, as well as a monument to Frédéric Chopin in Punta del Este. He is a sponsor and patron of an elementary school in the region of Podlasie in Poland.〔http://www.wrotapodlasia.pl/pl/archiwum/rok_2005/I_kwartal/krypno.htm〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jan Kobylański」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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