He was co-organizer of the First Silesian Uprising in 1919. After the fail of the uprising, he got beaten and arrested by Germany, being imprisoned in Nysa, Free State of Prussia. In 1919, he had established the office of the Polish Red Cross. He was a manager of the Polish Plebiscite Committee, which in 1921 had handled the Upper Silesia plebiscite. After the plebiscite, when Rybnik was transferred to Poland, Różański had become a member of the Citizen Council, the provisional government of Rybnik.