Aleksander Prystor
Aleksander Prystor ( born January 2, 1874 in Vilnius, † the summer of 1941 in Butyrka prison in Moscow) was a Polish colonel, politician and Prime Minister.
Life
Studies and early revolutionary activities
Prystor graduated from 1894 to 1901 studying mathematics and medicine at the Lomonosov University in Moscow and the Imperial University Yuriev. He had already developed during the study period sympathies for Poland's independence from the Russian Empire and the revolutionary ideas of the Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party ( Organizacja Bojowa PPS), the Polish Socialist Party - Revolutionary Group ( Polska Partia Socjalistyczna - Frakcja Rewolucyjna ), the Union for Armed fights ( Związek Walki Czynnej ) and was founded in 1910 Protect Association " Strzelec " ( Związek Strzelecki " Strzelec " ), in which he takes part in officer training courses. Thus he also got in touch with Józef Piłsudski under whose guidance he on September 26, 1908 in the invasion of a Russian passenger and mail train near the Lithuanian town Bezdany, the so -called " Bezdany Raid " ( Akcja pod Bezdanami ) part.
In 1912 he was arrested because of his activities and then spent until his dismissal in 1917 five years in a Russian prison in Oryol. After his release, he immediately joined at the Polish Military Organization ( POW, Polish Polska Organizacja Wojskowa ) and is a member of the High Command of the POW in Warsaw.
Independence and climb to the Minister and President of the Senate
After the independence of Poland on 22 November 1918, he is 1918-1922 Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare. During the Polish-Soviet War from 1919 to 1920 he was a member as a volunteer at the same time a fighting unit and is an officer for special orders of the Supreme Commander Piłsudski. Most recently, he held the rank of colonel and was a member of the Colonels as such clique, the inner circle of advisers of Marshal Pilsudski. He was also a 1920-1923 policy advisor to Lieutenant General Lucjan Żeligowski, the first was military dictator of Central Lithuania and then Chief of Staff Army at that time.
After commanded by Piłsudski Maiputsch 1926 he is Head of Cabinet of the General Inspector of the Armed Forces. In April 1929 he is working minister in the governments of Kazimierz Świtalski and Kazimierz Bartel and exercises this office until March 1930. In December 1930 Prime Minister Valery Sławek appointed him as Minister of Industry and Trade, a post in which he was obviously inexperienced.
On 27 May 1931 he was the successor of Sławek Prime Minister. As such, he was until May 12, 1933 Office and was then replaced by Janusz Jedrzejewicz. His cabinet follows the economic experience of Western European democracies, the United States, but also those of the authoritarian states Soviet Union and Italy. In addition, he later took part in an election law reform to the election of the Senate of the fourth legislature (1935-1938), according to the basis of age and asset requirements, however, only two percent of citizens were eligible to vote. On behalf of Piłsudski in 1934 he negotiator for the improvement of the Lithuanian- Polish relations.
In October 1935, he was elected as representatives of the Polish minority in Vilnius senator. Took place on 4 October 1935 on the first plenary session then as the successor of Władysław Raczkiewicz his election as President of the Senate (Senate Marshal ( Marszalek Senatu ) ). This office he held until his replacement by Bogusław Miedziński on 18 November 1938. The Senate of the fifth legislature ( 1938-1939 ) he has been a Senator also back and is also chair the committees for household, business and agriculture.
After the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland in September 1939, he fled to neutral Lithuania. There he was arrested by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ( NKVD ) and transferred to the Butyrka prison in Moscow, where he died the following year after the annexation by the Soviet Union in 1940.
His symbolic grave is on Powązki cemetery in Warsaw.