Kazimierz Świtalski

Kazimierz Świtalski

Kazimierz Świtalski ( kaˈʑimjɛʂ ɕfiˈtalskʲi ; born March 4, 1886 in Sanok , † December 28, 1962 in Warsaw ) was a Polish officer (colonel), politician and a Prime Minister of Poland.

Before the First World War, he joined the "Association of Active Combat" (Polish: Związek Walki Czynnej), an underground organization founded in 1908 a. a. was founded by Józef Piłsudski and was preparing an uprising in the Russian-ruled part of Poland. In 1914 Świtalski became a member of the "Polish Legions" founded with the consent of Austria-Hungary ; after 1918 he belonged to the Polish army under Piłsudski, whose adjutant he became. Even after the end of the war he remained in the Polish army.

During the coup in 1926, Świtalski supported Piłsudski. This loyalty earned him various political positions of trust in the period that followed. So he became head of the President's Civil Chancellery. In June 1928 Świtalski became Minister of Education, between April and December 1929 he was Prime Minister of Poland. In 1930 he was elected to the Sejm , between 1933 and 1935 he was its president (marszałek). After retiring from active political life in 1935, he became Voivode of Kraków .

After the Polish defeat at the beginning of World War II , Świtalski was interned in the Woldenberg camp and only liberated in 1945. He was persecuted and detained again under the communist government. Finally, in 1956, Świtalski was rehabilitated.

Web links

Commons : Kazimierz Świtalski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography on the homepage of the government chancellery ( Memento from February 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Polish)
• List of ministers in the Cabinet 1929 ( Memento of June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )