Jędrzej Moraczewski

Polish socialist politician

Jędrzej Moraczewski


2nd Prime Minister of the Second Polish Republic
In office 18 November 1918 – 16 January 1919
President	Rada Regencyjna (Regency Council) Józef Piłsudski (Chief of State)
Deputy	Tomasz Nocznicki
Preceded by	Ignacy Daszyński (provisional)
Succeeded by	Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Personal details
Born	Jędrzej Edward Moraczewski (1870-01-13)13 January 1870 Tremessen (Trzemeszno), Province of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia
Died	5 August 1944(1944-08-05) (aged 74) Sulejówek, General Government
Political party	Polish Socialist Party
Profession	Engineer

Jędrzej Edward Moraczewski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjɛndʐɛj mɔraˈt͡ʂɛfskʲi]; 13 January 1870 – 5 August 1944) was a Polish socialist politician who, loyal to Józef Piłsudski and viewed as acceptable by both left- and right-wing Polish political factions, served as the second Prime Minister of the Second Polish Republic between November 1918 and January 1919.^[1] He had previously served as Minister of Communications. Subsequently, from 1925 to 1929, he served as Minister of Public Labour.^[2]

Moraczewski died on 5 August 1944 when he was hit by shrapnel fired by a Soviet soldier into his house. He was buried at Powązki Military Cemetery.

References

^ Leslie, R. F. (1983). The History of Poland Since 1863. Cambridge University Press. p. 127. ISBN 9780521275019.
^ Remigiusz Okraska (7 July 2008). "Jędrzej Moraczewski" (in Polish). Polskie Radio. Retrieved 21 December 2013.

Source publications

Andrzej Chojnowski, Piotr Wróbel, ed. (1992). Presidents and prime ministers of the Second Polish Republic (in Polish). Wrocław: Ossolineum. ISBN 83-04-03854-4.

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Political offices
Preceded by Władysław Wróblewski	Prime Minister of Poland 1918–1919	Succeeded by Ignacy Paderewski

Prime ministers of Poland

Duchy of Warsaw (1807–1813)

Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918)

Second Polish Republic
(1918–1939)

Polish government-in-exile
(1939–1990)

Polish People's Republic
(1944–1989)

Third Polish Republic
(1989–present)

v t e Deputy Marshal of the Sejm (Second Polish Republic)
Jakub Bojko (1919–1922) Andrzej Maj (1919–1922) Jędrzej Moraczewski (1919–1925) Stanisław Osiecki (1919–1922) Józef Ostachowski (1919) Stanisław Nowicki (1919) Zygmunt Seyda (1921–1925) Ludwik Gdyk (1922–1928) Aleksander Zwierzyński (1922–1928) Juliusz Poniatowski (1922–1927) Leon Pluciński (1925–1926) Ignacy Daszyński (1925–1928) Jan Dębski (1925–1928) Zygmunt Marek (1928–1930) Jan Woźnicki (1928–1930) Wołodymyr Zahajkewycz (1928–1930) Seweryn Czetwertyński (1928–1931) Jan Dąbski (1928–1931) Michał Róg (1930–1935) Zygmunt Żuławski (1930) Jan Piłsudski (1930–1931) Karol Polakiewicz (1930–1935) Stanisław Car (1930–1935) Wacław Makowski (1931–1935) Władysław Byrka (1935–1936) Bogusław Miedziński (1935–1938) Bohdan Podoski (1935–1938) Tadeusz Schaetzel (1935–1938) Stanisław Kielak (1936–1938) Wasyl Mudry (1935–1939) Zygmunt Wenda (1938–1939) Wacław Długosz (1938–1939) Jan Henryk Jedynak (1938–1939) Leon Surzyński (1938–1939)

Deputy Marshal of the Sejm (Second Polish Republic)