Aleksander Zawisza

Aleksander Zawisza (* 1896, † 1977) was a Polish politician and Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile.

Biography

Zawisza entered the diplomatic service after school education. There he was in 1940 Counsellor at the Embassy in Rome. Then he was between 1942 and 1945 as consul in Africa.

After the end of World War II, he fled to the West, where he on employees of the exile government in London soon. On September 10, 1955, he was appointed by the exile Prime Minister Antoni Pająk Minister of Emigration in his cabinet. As such, he played a key role in the 1959 surrender of the war archives of the Polish Ministry of Information by the United Kingdom at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In addition, he attempted a certain neutrality towards the now Communist- dominated states Polish People's Republic, Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR, Czechoslovakia, People's Republic of Romania and Hungary.

On June 25, 1965, he was the successor Pająks finally even Minister of the Polish government in exile. He held until his replacement by Zygmunt Muchniewski on July 16, 1970 this office.

Swell

  • Biography on the website of the Cabinet Office ( Polish)
  • Biographical information in rulers.org

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 Urbanski | Kazimierz Sabbat | Edward Szczepanik

  • Man
  • Pole
  • Politicians (Poland )
  • Prime Minister (Poland )
  • Born 1896
  • Died in 1977
  • Minister (Poland )
Polish government-in-exile Communism Tadeusz Tomaszewski (Prime Minister)
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