Leon Orłowski

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Leon Orłowski

Leon Orłowski (born March 22, 1891 in Tatary, Włocławek District , Congress Poland ; † March 19, 1976 in Rabka-Zdrój ) was a Polish diplomat.

Life

Leon Orłowski was a soldier in the Russian Army from 1914 to 1917 during the First World War . Since the founding of Poland , he was employed in the Polish Foreign Ministry and went through a diplomatic career with stations in New York , Pittsburgh (1924) and at the embassy in Washington, DC From 1932 to 1936 he was counselor in London . In 1936 he became the Polish ambassador in Budapest . One of the few successes of Polish foreign policy was the joint border with Hungary, which resulted from the fact that Poland promoted the occupation of Carpathian Ukraine by Hungary in March 1939 .

Orłowski remained in Budapest after the German invasion of Poland and the occupation of Poland by the German Reich and the Soviet Union at the end of September 1939 and helped those who had fled Poland. The Horthy regime thus demonstrated its partial foreign policy independence from the German Reich. Orłowski emigrated to the USA via detours in 1941 and did not return to the People's Republic of Poland at the end of the war . In the early 1950s he worked for the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund and published articles in the emigrant magazine Kultura . In later years he wrote about the correspondence of the writer Władysław Reymont . In 1973 he returned to Krakow .

Fonts (selection)

  • Wspomnienia z Budapesztu , in: Kultura , issue 10, 1952
  • O polityce . Instytut Polski i Muzeum Sikorskiego. London, Orbis 1967

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marian Wojciechowski : The Polish-German Relations: 1933-1938 . Translator: Norbert Damerau. Leiden: Brill 1971, p. 522 ff
  2. ↑ René Geoffroy: Hungary as a place of refuge and place of work for German-speaking emigrants (1933 - 1938/39) . Frankfurt am Main: Lang 2001, pp. 117–125
personal data
SURNAME Orłowski, Leon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Tatary, Włocławek County
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1976
Place of death Rabka-Zdrój