August Zaleski

August Zaleski (* September 13, 1883 in Warsaw, † April 7, 1972 in London ) was a Polish diplomat and politician.

From professional historians and economists ( he studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science) joined Zaleski 1918 in the service of the Polish Foreign Ministry and was appointed to the Polish ambassador in Bern. In the years 1919-1926 he worked as a Polish diplomat in Greece and Italy. After Józef Piłsudski Maiputsch of 12 May 1926, he was appointed the same year to the Polish Foreign Minister, and held this office until 1932, after which he was in the years 1935 to 1939 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Polish commercial bank.

In exile from 1939 to 1941 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Polish government in exile and resigned in protest against General Władysław Sikorski ( the Prime Minister was ) policy of rapprochement with the USSR back. 1943 to 1945 he was head of the Presidential Chancellery.

After the death of Władysław Raczkiewicz he took over in 1947, the Office of the President in exile. His constitutionally permitted two terms of seven years should expire in 1961 ( he had even obligated to assign in 1954 and to leave the office to the General Kazimierz Sosnkowski ). However Zaleski refused to resign and remained exiled president until his death in 1972, which meant that the majority of exile Poland ( 80% ) with Edward Raczyński, General Władysław Anders and the former Minister Tomasz Arciszewski at the top (representing the so-called Tripartite imagined), he announced the following. Zaleski died in exile in London.