page_title: Chodzież
section_title: Interbellum
hierarchical_section_title: Chodzież / History / Interbellum
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Pomnik pamięci Powstańców Wielkopolskich w Chodzieży
context_page_description: Chodzież is a town in northwestern Poland with 20,400 inhabitants. Situated in the Chodzież County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, previously in Piła Voivodeship.
context_section_description: After World War I, Poland regained independence and the Greater Poland Uprising, the aim of which was to reintegrate the region with Poland, spread to Chodzież. After bloody fighting the insurgents captured the town on January 8, 1919. But it was not until the Versailles Treaty in 1919 that Chodzież became officially Polish again. On 19 January 1920, Polish military and political authorities marched into the city and a Polish administration was established. Unemployment and living conditions deteriorated, leading to a wave of strikes, starting in 1921. In the 1930s, the years of the great world economic crisis, workers from Chodzież porcelain factory started a new series of protests. In the period between the two world wars, Chodzież was considered as an important administrative center in the border area between Poland and Germany. It had a working class character, which was related to the development of the faience factory. Since the city was located near the border, 30% of the population (8,500) was German.
  In the 1920s, a tuberculosis sanatorium was established here because of the special climate. It was converted recently into a hospital for railroadmen. In 1921 Stanisław Mańczak bought the porcelain fabric from the Annaburger Steinguttfabrik firm.
caption: Memorial to the Greater Poland insurgents of 1918–1919
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