 He studied agriculture at the Jagiellonian University, as well as at the German universities in Munich and Halle.He inherited significant agricultural lands, and he was a notable agricultural activist in Greater Poland.In 1918 he became a functionary of the reborn Polish state, first as a commissar for the Łódź region in 1918, then from 1919 to 1920 as a starost of the Środa County and from 1923 to 1928 he was the voivode of Poznań.