National Democrat of Prussian Poland and minister of the government in exile
Born in Poznań in 1879, he joined secret societies at school, passed through the youth union 'Zet' and joined the National League in 1900, becoming its commissioner for the Prussian partition. In 1915 he went to Switzerland and co-founded the Polish Central Agency in Lausanne, joined Dmowski's Polish National Committee in 1917 and was a political expert to the delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. In independent Poland he sat in the Sejm and the Senate for the Popular National Union and became foreign minister in 1923. After the May Coup of 1926 he edited Kurier Poznański. In the Second World War he was justice minister in Sikorski's government in exile, was expelled from the National Party in 1942, and died in exile in Buenos Aires.
Activities and affiliations
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1900–1928
National League (Liga Narodowa, Poland)
Political and party leadership -
1919–1935
Legislature and state representation
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1919–1942
Legislature and state representation
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1923
Government and administration
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1939–1944
Government and administration
Career Timeline
- 1900Joined the National League; later its commissioner for the Prussian partition
- 1915Co-founded the Polish Central Agency in Lausanne
- 1917.08.15Member of the Polish National Committee
- 1919Political expert to the delegation at the Paris Peace Conference
- 1919–1927Sejm deputy (Popular National Union); deputy chair of the foreign affairs committee
- 1923Minister of Foreign Affairs
- 1926.09Editor-in-chief of Kurier Poznański
- 1928–1935Senator
- 1940Justice minister of the government in exile
- 1942Expelled from the National Party