Vincents Vitos , Polish. Wincenty Witos ( January 21, 1874 , Vezhkhoslavice , c. Tarnuva - October 31, 1945 , Krakow ) - Polish politician.
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| The president | Jozef Pilsudski (Head of State) | ||||||
| Predecessor | Vladislav Grabsky | ||||||
| Successor | Antony Ponikovsky | ||||||
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| The president | Stanislav Wojciechowski | ||||||
| Predecessor | Vladislav Sikorsky | ||||||
| Successor | Vladislav Grabsky | ||||||
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| The president | Stanislav Wojciechowski | ||||||
| Predecessor | Alexander Skshinsky | ||||||
| Successor | Casimir Bartel | ||||||
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Biography
He lived in Galicia, which at that time was part of Austria-Hungary. Member of the Polish Peasant Party ( Polish. Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe, PSL ) since 1895, one of the founders and leaders of the Piast Party (1913-1931). Member of the Galician Sejm in 1908-1914, deputy of the Reichsrat in Vienna in 1911-1918. Vitos was also the head of the Polish Liquidation Commission ( Polish. Polska Komisja Likwidacyjna ) in 1918, the leader of the Polish Peasant Party "Piast" ( Polish. Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe "Piast" ) and the deputy of the Sejm (1919-1930).
Three times he served as Prime Minister of Poland : in 1920-1921, 1923 and 1926. The last government of Vitos was overthrown during the May coup of U. Pilsudski .
Vitos was one of the leaders of the opposition to the “ reorganization regime ” and the head of the “ Centrolew ” in 1929-1930. He was also one of the founders of the Peasant Party ( Polish: Stronnictwo Ludowe, SL ). Shortly afterwards, he was imprisoned for a short time, after which he went into exile in Czechoslovakia in 1933. He returned to Poland in 1939. During the years of occupation was under the supervision of the Gestapo .
Already being sick, in 1945 he became one of the vice-chairmen of the Regional Council of the People’s ( Polish. Krajowa Rada Narodowa, KRN ).
Radzymin , an obelisk in memory of Vincent Vitos's visit to the front line in 1920
Monument to Vitos in Warsaw
Lesna Podlaska . Monument to Vitos - Trustee of the Local Association of Agricultural Schools
Notes
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Vitos of Vincenti // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ed. A. M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
- ↑ National Library of France - 1994.