Mikolajczyk, Stanislaw

Mikolajczyk, Stanislaw

(born July 18, 1901, Holsterhausen, near Gelsenkirchen, Ger.—died Dec. 13, 1966, Washington, D.C., U.S.) Polish statesman. He cofounded the Peasant Party and served as its leader (1931–39). After the German invasion of Poland (1939), he fled to London, where he served in the Polish government-in-exile as prime minister (1943–44). He returned in 1945 and became second deputy premier in the communist-dominated provisional government. He tried to effect a democratic government, but persecution of the noncommunist Peasant Party forced him to flee in 1947 to Britain and then the U.S.

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Mikolajczyk, Stanislaw 

Born July 18, 1901, in Holsterhausen, Westphalia; died Dec. 13, 1966, in Washington, D. C. Statesman and politician of bourgeois-landlord Poland.

Mikołajczyk represented the peasant party Stronnictwo Ludowe in the Sejm from 1930 to 1935. He was deputy prime minister (1940–43) and prime minister (1943–44) of the Polish government-in-exile in London. In June 1945 he joined the Provisional Government of National Unity formed in liberated Poland, serving as second deputy prime minister and minister of agriculture. In August 1945 he founded the Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe, a reactionary party. Mikolajczyk fled abroad in 1947, and in 1950 he founded in the USA the Polish National Democratic Committee, an organization of reactionary Polish political émigrés.