List of Foreign Ministers of Poland

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.