Tadeusz Tomaszewski (politician, 1881)
Tadeusz Tomaszewski (born November 26, 1881 in Sacin near Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą , † August 10, 1950 in London ) was a Polish lawyer , politician and Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile .
Life
Studies, professional career and Second Republic
Tomaszewski studied law at the University of Warsaw and the Lomonosov University in Moscow . While still a student, he joined the Polish Socialist Party (Polska Partia Socjalistyczna) in 1901 . After graduating, he worked as a lawyer in Warsaw .
During the First World War he was a member of the Supreme National Committee (Naczelny Komitet Narodowy) . After the independence of Poland on November 22, 1918 and the establishment of the Second Republic , he again worked as a lawyer. On the other hand, he was also a member of the board of directors of the Bank for Agriculture (Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego) and the Bank of Poland ( Bank Polski ) , both of which were founded in 1924 by Finance Minister Władysław Grabski .
In 1929 he was appointed a member of the State Tribunal of the Republic of Poland (Trybunał Stanu) . This was created exclusively for the investigation of the liability of top political dignitaries. In this office there was an investigation into Treasury Minister Gabriel Czechowicz , who was accused of misappropriating government funds. The Czechowicz case, the only case before the state tribunal , was ultimately dropped without conviction due to pressure from the Sanacja regime under Marshal Józef Piłsudski . Later he was a member of the main council of the PPS as well as the city council of Warsaw. He also held several offices within the Association of Socialist Lawyers (Zrzeszenie Prawników Socjalistów) and the Association of Lawyers (Narodowe Zrzeszenie Adwokatów) .
Second World War and Prime Minister of the government in exile
After the attack on Poland and the beginning of the Second World War on September 1, 1939, he went into exile first in Romania and then in France . In the Polish government-in-exile formed there , he first became Minister of Justice . He was then from December 1939 to April 1949 President of the Supreme Control Chamber ( Najwyższa Izba Kontroli ) of the Polish cabinets in exile.
On April 7, 1949, he was finally appointed Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile by the exiled president August Zaleski as successor to Lieutenant General Tadeusz Komorowski . After his death, Roman Odzierzyński was his successor.
In 1950 he was posthumously awarded the Order of the White Eagle (Order Orła Białego) , the highest honor of the Second Republic of Poland.
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- Biography on the homepage of the government chancellery (Polish)
- Biographical information in rulers.org
- News of death in TIME magazine on August 21, 1950
Władysław Sikorski | Stanisław Mikołajczyk | Tomasz Arciszewski | Tadeusz Komorowski | Tadeusz Tomaszewski | Roman Odzierzyński | Jerzy Hryniewski | Stanisław Mackiewicz | Hugon Hanke | Antoni Pająk | Aleksander Zawisza | Zygmunt Muchniewski | Alfred Urbański | Kazimierz Sabbath | Edward Szczepanik
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Prime Minister of the Second Republic | Prime Ministerial Cycle ( Poland) 1939– (1944) |
Prime Minister of Communist Poland |
| Prime Ministerial Cycle (Poland) 1939–1990 |
Prime Minister of the Third Republic of Poland |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tomaszewski, Tadeusz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish politician; Prime Minister of Poland (government in exile) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sacin near Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą , Petrokow Governorate , Russian Empire (today: Powiat Grójecki , Poland ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 10, 1950 |
| Place of death | London , England , UK |