Andrzej Witos

Andrzej Witos (born November 8, 1878 in Wierzchosławice, died on March 9, 1973 in Łódź) was a Polish politician, activist and younger brother of Wincenty Witos.[1][2]

Biography

From 1902 he lived in Jasionów (between 1905-1907 he briefly lived in the United States). In 1928 in Złoczew, he ran a farm. He belonged to Polish People's Party (PSL). In the years 1922-1927 he was a member of parliament in the Polish Sejm.[3] After the aggression of the Soviet Union in Poland, in 1940 he was deported to Siberia, in 1941 he was imprisoned in the labor camp as the president of the Settlement Union of the Tarnopol Voivodeship. After being released as a result of the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement in the years 1942-1943, he was an employee of the Polish Embassy in the USSR, he was responsible for the Polish population in Azerbaijan. From May 1943 he was a member of Union of Polish Patriots.[4] In addition, he was a member of the Polish Committee of National Liberation, where he briefly (until October 9, 1944) headed the Ministry of Agriculture and Agricultural Reforms; he was also a deputy to the National Council of Ministers.[5][6]

He was buried in Łódź in 1973.

References

  1. ↑ Wróbel, Piotr (2014-01-27). Historical Dictionary of Poland 1945-1996. Routledge. ISBN 9781135926946.
  2. ↑ Kersten, Krystyna (1991). The Establishment of Communist Rule in Poland, 1943-1948. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520062191.
  3. ↑ Held, Joseph (1996). Populism in Eastern Europe: Racism, Nationalism, and Society. Eastern European Monographs. ISBN 9780880333375.
  4. ↑ Junosza-Gałecki, Alexsander (1945). Polish Patriots Made in Moscow. Library of Fighting Poland.
  5. ↑ Shore, Marci (2006). Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300110928.
  6. ↑ Iordachi, Constantin; Bauerkamper, Arnd (2014-03-31). The Collectivization of Agriculture in Communist Eastern Europe: Comparison and Entanglements. Central European University Press. ISBN 9786155225635.


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