Józef Piłsudski

male, deceased (1935)
May 1926 ''coup d'état'', Heads of state, came to power in a coup, Coup D'etat, Polish government, SecondPolishRepublic…Polish-Soviet War, Polish Socialist Party, Polish Armed Forces, Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, polish
Józef Klemens Piłsudski, was a Polish revolutionary and statesman, Field Marshal, first Chief of State (1918-1922) and dictator (1926-1935) of th...

Władysław Sikorski

male, deceased (1943)
partitioners, Partitions of Poland, World War II political leader, prime minister, World War I, Recipient of Virtuti Militari…polish, Polish Army, Polish nobility, Polish Legions in World War I, Polish Legions
Władysław Eugeniusz Sikorski was a Polish military and political leader. He was born in the southern Polish town of Tuszów Narodowy, which at the...
Witold Pilecki

Witold Pilecki

male, deceased (1948)
execution, auschwitz concentration camp, polish, Nazi Germany, warsaw uprising, Polish resistance fighter…Polish Scouts and Guides, SecondPolishRepublic
Witold Pilecki (May 13, 1901 - May 25, 1948; pronounced ['vitɔld pi'leʦki]; codenames "Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafiński, Druh, Witold") was a sol...
Wojciech Korfanty

Wojciech Korfanty

male, deceased (1939)
Polish state, Polish uprisings, Silesian Uprisings, SecondPolishRepublic, discrimination, journalist…polish
Wojciech Korfanty (20 April 1873 - 17 August 1939) was a Polish nationalist activist, journalist and politician, serving as member of the German...

Jędrzej Moraczewski

male, deceased (1944)
polish, Prime Minister of Poland, SecondPolishRepublic
Jędrzej Moraczewski was a Polish socialist politician who served as first Prime Minister of Poland (of the Second Polish Republic), from November 1...
Ryszard Kapuściński

Ryszard Kapuściński

male, deceased (2007)
war correspondent, communist, Communism, poet, Belarus born, Pinsk…SecondPolishRepublic, Polish United Workers' Party, Polish Press Agency, polish
Ryszard Kapuściński was a popular Polish journalist, author, publicist and poet both at home and abroad. Born in Pińsk, a city that was formerly loc...
Maciej Rataj

Maciej Rataj

male, deceased (1940)
Acting President of the Republic of Poland, Zamość, University of Lwow, Lwow, Political parties, SecondPolishRepublic…polish, Sejm Marshal of the Second Polish Republic
Maciej Rataj was a Polish politician, president, socialist activist and writer. He was executed by Nazi Germany. Born in the Chłopy village near L...

Stanisław Grabski

male, deceased (1949)
Economist, polish, politician, SecondPolishRepublic, polonization, ideologue
Stanisław Grabski was a Polish politician and economist, an ideologue of "endecja" known for his support of the Polonization policies during the t...

Ignacy Daszyński

male, deceased (1936)
interbellum, anecdote, premier, das kapital, Prime Minister of Poland, polish…Sejm Marshal of the Second Polish Republic, Polish Socialist Party, SecondPolishRepublic
Ignacy Daszyński was a Polish politician. In his youth a founder of the Polish Socialist Party, he suffered extremely impoverished circumstances a...
Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski

Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski

male, deceased (1974)
Economist, Centralny Okręg Przemysłowy, Ignacy Moscicki, May Coup, SecondPolishRepublic, Coup D'etat…polish
Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski was a Polish politician and economist. After Józef Piłsudski's May coup d'etat of 1926 in the Second Polish Republic, he wa...