Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski

Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski in general uniform

Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski

Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski (born July 9, 1885 in Gąbin , † August 31, 1962 in London ) was a Polish division general , doctor , politician and Prime Minister of the Second Polish Republic from 1936 to 1939 .

Life

After graduating from high school in Kielce , Składkowski joined the Polish Socialist Party in 1905 . Until 1911 he studied medicine at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and then worked as a doctor in Sosnowiec .

He fought in the Polish legion in the First World War from 1914 and was imprisoned in Beniaminów in the summer of 1917 after the 1st and 3rd Legion refused to take the emperor's oath .

During the Polish-Soviet War between 1919 and 1920 he was responsible for the medical care of the Polish army . In 1924 he became a brigadier general and head of the military health service .

As a confidante of Józef Piłsudski , after the May coup in 1926 he was repeatedly interior minister in changing governments of the so-called Sanacja regime and in this function was responsible for the imprisonment of the Centrolew leaders in Brześć . From 1930 he was a member of the Sejm and from 1931 Deputy Minister of Defense.

From May 13, 1936 to September 30, 1939, Składkowski was the last Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of the Second Polish Republic .

On September 7, 1939, before the invasion of German troops from Warsaw, he fled to Romania and was interned there. In 1940 he fled from there to Turkey and on to Palestine . From 1947 he lived in England . Składkowski died in London on August 31, 1962 .

Publications

• Podręcznik hygjeny dla oficerów i podchorążych (1919)
• Beniaminów 1917–1918
• Strzępy meldunków , ISBN 83-11-07600-6 .
• Nie ostatnie słowo oskarżonego , ISBN 83-88736-32-9 .
• Moja służba w Brygadzie
• Kwiatuszki administracyjne i inne , ISBN 83-88736-57-4 .

literature

• Marek Sioma: Sławoj Felicjan Składkowski. Żołnierz i polityk , ISBN 83-227-2371-7 (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, 2005).

Web links

Commons : Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Newspaper article about Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski in the press kit 20th Century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economy .