Performing in the Guitar Competition in Warsaw in 1988, he received first prize, and claimed second prize later that year at the National Guitar Competition, held in Strzelce Krajeńskie, aged 14 years.
In 1938 the districts of Arnswalde and Friedeberg (Neumark) were merged into a new district called Posen-West Prussia frontier district, which was transferred from Brandenburg to the adjacent more northerly Province of Pomerania.