Career
Edward Pfeiffer was born in 1895 in a middle-class family in Łódź. He also attended high school there and between 1910-1912 he helped to found the Polish Scouting Association and a secret school organization "Collegial Self-Help" whose purpose was education in the Polish language (partly banned or restricted in Tsarist Russia) and the study of Polish history. The group also distributed books which had been banned by the Tsarist censors.