Although as a young landowner he voluntarily imposed a tax on himself for the January Uprising, he was aware that the road to independence did not lie through armed action, because the two powers that, besides Austria, held us in the clutches of partition seemed to be unbeatable. He was convinced that the most important task of the Polish elites was to awaken the national consciousness of Poles by promoting Polish education, culture, science, economy, and the ability to organize themselves in various kinds of associations, unions, cooperatives, etc. He himself gained a thorough education. At the age of 24, he obtained a doctorate in both laws. A stable financial position allowed him to engage in political activity, although strictly regulated by Prussia, but allowing the functioning of a small group of deputies within the Polish Circle in the Reichstag of the German Empire. As a deputy in Berlin, he had to operate in extremely difficult times, as he himself recalled years later, "the heyday of the power of the German Reich, and on the other hand the greatest torment of our Polish sense and existence." It was then that the German Empire launched a huge machine to crush the Polish element in the Prussian partition.

The Kulturkampf (cultural struggle) initiated by Otto von Bismarck was essentially aimed at subordinating the Catholic Church to the state. The May laws of 1873 and 1875 constituted a clear intervention by secular authority in the functioning of the Church. Already during Roman Komierowski's term, also initiated by the Pole-hater Bismarck, in 1886, the Colonization Commission was established, whose task was to buy land from Polish hands to settle settlers from the German Empire on it. Despite huge financial expenditures, thanks to the consistent resistance of Polish society, the commission's activities yielded negligible results. Komierowski had the courage to demand the abolition of the Colonization Commission in parliament. Already in the final period of his parliamentary activity in 1894, another enemy of Polishness appeared on the horizon: Hakata, a nationalist organization that began its activity under the protection of Bismarck himself, whose main goal became the Germanization of Poles under the Prussian partition. Only such people as Roman Komierowski, conscious and excellently educated, could weaken the impact of the Prussian machine. The respect he enjoyed despite his young age within the circle of Polish parliamentarians meant that he often spoke on behalf of the Polish Circle. Already in his debut on the parliamentary forum, the 26-year-old deputy offended Bismarck by demanding the release of Fr. Dr. Antoni Kantecki, editor-in-chief of "Kuryer Poznański," imprisoned by the Prussians for refusing to provide the personal details of the newspaper's informant who exposed the government order forcing state officials to inform on others. This move was directed against the Primate of Poland, Archbishop of Poznań and Gniezno, Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, who after two years of imprisonment by the Prussians went to the Vatican, from where he managed two dioceses through secret emissaries and correspondence. Komierowski called the chancellor by name "to undertake appropriate measures for the imprisoned man." His interpellation in the Reichstag for the release of Fr. Kantecki was successful.

Already as a retired deputy, he became fascinated with the charm of the Hel Peninsula and decided to build a holiday home there. The problem was that until the 1930s, no Pole lived on Hel, as it was "Germanic land," inaccessible to Slavs, especially Poles. Komierowski purchased a plot, but none of the local craftsmen wanted to build a house for him. Eventually, a Dutch builder agreed to the task, "to spite the Germans." The built Kashubian cottage had a Polish interior, which enraged the Germans. Although the house windows were smashed and Komierowski was often made to feel like a persona non grata, he did not back down and did not move away from Hel. He was a supporter of positivist grassroots work and saw it as a chance to preserve Polishness. He became one of the co-founders of the Scientific Society in Toruń, existing since 1875 to this day. He served as secretary to the Archaeological-Historical Department of this organization. He was also actively involved in the Society of People's Reading Rooms, established in 1880 as a reaction of Poles to the occupier's removal of the Polish language from offices and courts. From Greater Poland, he expanded his activities to other Polish lands under foreign rule. Roman Komierowski was also successful in economic, publishing, and press fields. Thanks to him and many other wonderful social activists, Poles in Greater Poland survived as a nation, effectively resisting Prussian oppression, Germanization, and persecution. Organizational skills, courage, and military training gained through secret organizations determined the victory of Poles in the Greater Poland Uprising of 1918. Roman Komierowski died a fulfilled man, witnessing the independence of Poland, which at the beginning of his parliamentary activity in the Reichstag could have seemed a dream. The concert on August 18, 2024, in his beloved Komierowo is to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of this great Pole, pride of the Komierowski family. Roman Komierowski had to fight the Germans for the rights of Poles. Today, Germany is our friendly neighbor and most important economic partner. In Roman Komierowski's times, this could only be dreamed of. Roman Komierowski will forever remain an example of civic and patriotic attitude for future generations of his family, stemming from the belief that the prosperity and welfare of the Homeland is achieved through systematic, honest, solid, and passionate work.

Komierowskis from Komierowo, Pomian coat of arms