Wincenty Witos
Sign in to savePolish politician, three times the Prime Minister of Poland (1874–1945)
Key facts
- President
- Stanisław Wojciechowski
- Preceded by
- Aleksander Skrzyński
- Succeeded by
- Kazimierz Bartel
- Deputy
- Stanisław Głąbiński , Wojciech Korfanty
- Chief of state
- Józef Piłsudski
- Born
- 22 January 1874, Wierzchosławice , then Austro-Hungary , now Poland
- Died
- 31 October 1945 (1945-10-31) (aged 71), Kraków , Poland
- Party
- Polish People's Party "Piast"
- Profession
- Farmer
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Second Polish Republic
- Place of birth
- Wierzchosławice
- Place of death
- Kraków
- Occupation
- farmer
- Political party
- Front Morges
- Languages spoken
- Polish
- Field of work
- politics
- Image
- Wincenty Witos.JPG
- Work location
- Warsaw
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- date of birth
- 1874-01-21
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- 1945-10-21
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Encyclopedic overview
Wincenty Witos ( Polish pronunciation: [vinˈt͡sɛntɨ ˈvitɔs]; 21 or 22 January 1874 – 31 October 1945) was a Polish statesman, prominent member and leader of the Polish People's Party (PSL), who served three times as the Prime Minister of Poland in the 1920s.
He was a member of the Polish People's Party from 1895, and the leader of its "Piast" faction from 1913. He was a member of parliament in the Galician Sejm from 1908–1914, and an envoy to Reichsrat in Vienna from 1911 to 1918. Witos was also a leader of Polish Liquidation Committee (Polish: Polska Komisja Likwidacyjna) in 1918, head of the Piast party, and member of parliament in the Polish Sejm from 1919–1920.
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