Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski
Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski | |
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Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski | |
Personal details | |
Born | Kraków, Galicia, Austria-Hungary | 30 December 1888
Died | 22 August 1974 Kraków, Poland | (aged 85)
Resting place | Rakowicki Cemetery |
Nationality | Polish |
Occupation | Economist, politician |
Military service | |
Branch/service | Polish Legions |
Battles/wars | World War I |
Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski (30 December 1888, Kraków – 22 August 1974, Kraków) was a Polish politician and economist, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, government minister and manager of the Second Polish Republic.
Biography
[edit]He studied at the prestigious Jesuit college in Chyrów, and then graduated chemistry at the University of Lwów and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
After Józef Piłsudski's May coup d'état of 1926 in the Second Polish Republic, he was recommended by president Ignacy Mościcki for the post Minister of Industry and Trade in the government of Kazimierz Bartel. Kwiatkowski was a minister in eight successive governments (1926–30) and Deputy Prime Minister of Poland and Minister of Finance of Poland in two governments (1935–39).[1]
Among the most famous achievements of Kwiatkowski are the giant construction projects: the construction of Gdynia seaport, the development of the Polish Merchant Navy and sea trade, and the creation of Centralny Okręg Przemysłowy (The Central Industrial Region).
After the Soviet Union joined Nazi Germany in the invasion of Poland in 1939, he evacuated Poland with the rest of the Government on 17 September. He was interned in Romania until 1945. He returned to Poland and supervised the projects of reconstruction of the Polish seacoast, and in the years 1947–1952, he was a deputy to the Polish parliament (Sejm).
With the strengthening of the communist and Soviet grip on the Polish government, which he opposed, he fell out of favour of the communist government of the Polish People's Republic and was forced to retire in 1948. From 1952 onward, he concentrated on studies of chemistry, physics, and history.
He died in Kraków on 22 August 1974.
Works
[edit]- Zagadnienie przemysłu chemicznego na tle wielkiej wojny (1923)
- Postęp gospodarczy Polski (Economic Progress of Poland) (1928)
- Polska gospodarcza w roku 1928 (Economic Poland in 1928) (1928)
- Powrót Polski nad Bałtyk (The Return of Poland to Baltic) (1930)
- Dysproporcje. Rzecz o Polsce przeszłej i obecnej (1932)
- "Rzecz najważniejsza Polska" - Wybór myśli politycznych i społecznych (1988) - selection of his papers
See also
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Janusz Zaręba, Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski - romantyczny pragmatyk, Centrum Edukacji i Rozwoju Biznesu. Instytut Naukowo-Wydawniczy, Warszawa, 1998 (ISBN 83-86069-85-6)
- Archiwum polityczne Eugeniusza Kwiatkowskiego, Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, Warszawa, 2002 (ISBN 83-7059-612-6)
- Marian Marek Drozdowski, Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich - Wydawnictwo, Wrocław, 2001 (ISBN 83-04-04567-2)
- Marian Marek Drozdowski, Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski w polskiej historiografii i publicystyce historyczno-ekonomicznej, Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Warszawa, 1992 (ISBN 83-900329-3-7)
- Marian Marek Drozdowski, Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski : człowiek i dzieło, Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków, 1989 (ISBN 83-08-02092-5)
- Marian Marek Drozdowski, Piotr Dwojacki, Archiwum Morskie Eugeniusza Kwiatkowskiego, E. Kwiatkowski University of Business and Administration, Gdynia, 2009 (ISBN 83-62215-00-3)
References
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- 1888 births
- 1974 deaths
- Politicians from Kraków
- People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
- Sanacja politicians
- Deputy prime ministers of Poland
- Ministers of finance of Poland
- Government ministers of Poland
- Members of the Polish Sejm 1947–1952
- Polish Rifle Squads members
- Polish Military Organisation members
- Association of the Polish Youth "Zet" members
- Polish legionnaires (World War I)
- Polish Austro-Hungarians
- Polish economists
- Lviv Polytechnic alumni
- Academic staff of the Warsaw University of Technology
- Grand Crosses of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Commanders with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour
- Grand Crosses of the Order of the Star of Romania
- Grand Crosses of the Order of St. Sava
- Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star
- Order of Saint Olav
- Grand Crosses of the Order of the White Lion
- Grand Crosses of the Order of the Phoenix (Greece)
- Grand Crosses of the Order of the Crown (Belgium)
- Burials at Rakowicki Cemetery
- Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland)
- People associated with Chyrów