List of Foreign Ministers of Poland

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This is a list of the Foreign Ministers of Poland since 1918

Foreign Minister of the 2nd Republic of Poland (1918–1939)

Surname Taking office Term expires
Leon Wasilewski November 17, 1918 January 16, 1919
Ignacy Jan Paderewski January 16, 1919 December 9, 1919
Władysław Wróblewski (*) December 13, 1919 December 16, 1919
Stanisław Patek (*) December 16, 1919 June 9, 1920
Eustachy Sapieha June 23, 1920 May 24, 1921
Jan Dąbski May 24, 1921 June 11, 1921
Konstanty Skirmunt June 11, 1921 June 6, 1922
Gabriel Narutowicz June 28, 1922 December 14, 1922
Aleksander Skrzyński December 16, 1922 May 26, 1923
Marian Seyda May 28, 1923 October 27, 1923
Roman Dmowski October 27, 1923 December 14, 1923
Karol Bertoni (*) December 19, 1923 January 19, 1924
Maurycy Zamoyski January 19, 1924 July 27, 1924
Aleksander Skrzyński July 27, 1924 May 5, 1926
Kajetan Dzierżykraj-Morawski (*) May 10, 1926 May 15, 1926
August Zaleski (*) May 15, 1926 May 25, 1926
August Zaleski June 25, 1926 November 2, 1932
Jozef Beck November 2, 1932 September 30, 1939

Foreign Minister of the Polish Government in Exile (1939–1945)

Surname Taking office Term expires
August Zaleski September 30, 1939 July 25, 1941
Edward Raczyński (*) August 22, 1941 June 1942
Edward Raczyński June 1942 July 14, 1943
Tadeusz Romer July 14, 1943 November 24, 1944
Adam Tarnowski November 29, 1944 July 5, 1945

Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of Poland (1944–1989)

Surname Taking office Term expires
Edward Osóbka-Morawski July 21, 1944 May 2, 1945
Wincenty Rzymowski May 2, 1944 February 5, 1947
Zygmunt Modzelewski February 6, 1947 March 20, 1951
Stanisław Skrzeszewski March 20, 1951 April 27, 1956
Adam Rapacki December 22, 1956 22nd December 1968
Stefan Jędrychowski 22nd December 1968 22nd December 1971
Stefan Olszowski 22nd December 1971 2nd December 1976
Emil Wojtaszek 2nd December 1976 August 24, 1980
Józef Czyrek August 24, 1980 July 21, 1982
Stefan Olszowski July 21, 1982 November 12, 1985
Marian Orzechowski November 12, 1985 17th June 1988
Tadeusz Olechowski 17th June 1988 September 12, 1989

Foreign Minister of the 3rd Republic of Poland (since 1989)

Surname Taking office Term expires
Krzysztof Skubiszewski September 12, 1989 October 25, 1993
Andrzej Olechowski October 26, 1993 March 6, 1995
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski March 7, 1995 December 22, 1995
Dariusz Rosati December 29, 1995 October 30, 1997
Bronislaw Geremek October 31, 1997 June 30, 2000
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski June 30, 2000 October 19, 2001
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz October 19, 2001 January 5, 2005
Adam Daniel Rotfeld January 5, 2005 October 31, 2005
Stefan Meller October 31, 2005 May 9, 2006
Anna Fotyga May 9, 2006 November 16, 2007
Radosław Sikorski November 16, 2007 22nd September 2014
Grzegorz Schetyna 22nd September 2014 November 16, 2015
Witold Waszczykowski November 16, 2015 January 9, 2018
Jacek Czaputowicz January 9, 2018 20th August 2020
Zbigniew Rau August 26, 2020

(*) Managing director

Source: Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Former Ministers ( English ) Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. Archived from the original on July 17, 2012. Retrieved July 16, 2019.