Then Tadeusz „Racibor"

Born January 30, 1907 (or 1908) in Bielsko (now Bielsko-Biała).
He studied agriculture in Poznań, used the title of agricultural technician, later engineer, no detailed information is available about the circumstances of their acquisition.
According to Wacyk, he was one of the first Zadruga members (along with Ludwik Zasada and the Grzanka brothers), which means he joined the circle in 1937. He adopted the name Racibor. In the magazine „Zadruga” (1937-1939), he used the pseudonym „T. Topór”.

In 1938, he returned to Silesia (to Tarnowskie Góry), where he worked and organized a group of sympathizers of the magazine. In 1939, he was mobilized and found himself in England, where he served in the Polish Armed Forces in the West. There, he entered into a marital union with a British citizen, with whom he had 6 children. In 1944, along with Antoni Wacyk and Wilhelm Kwaterniak, Stanisław Opolski, and Józef Słonczyński – Zadruga members also serving in the PSZ – he published the bulletin “Goreją Wici” in Scotland. The same group published Wacyk's book "Culture without history" in 1945.
In 1948, he arrived with his family in Canada (Halifax), and from autumn 1948, he lived in Smithers, B.C. (British Columbia). There, he ran a farm, among other things.
He remained a member of the Zadruga movement in his beliefs, maintaining contacts with members of the domestic Zadruga circle (Józef Brueckman, Janina Kłopocka, Antoni Wacyk). He published articles, among others, in „Humanist in Canada”.
He died in Smithers on June 22, 1984.

 

Literature
Grott, Bogumił. Religion, Civilization, Development: Around the Ideas of Jan Stachniuk. Kraków: 2003.
Szczepański Tomasz "Goreją Wici" - an emigrant publication of the Zadruga circle in Great Britain, "Trygław" No. 15, 2013.
Wacyk Antoni Jan Stachniuk. 1905-1963. Life and Work, Wrocław 1974 reproduced typescript (in manuscript form, original held in the Jagiellonian Library collections)

Information: Józef Brueckman, Gavin Then (son).
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SHOW&db=jmckane&recno=226471 -there as Tadeusz Józef.