Witos, Wincenty

Witos, Wincenty

▪ Polish statesman
born Jan. 22, 1874, Wierzchosławice, Galicia, Pol., Austria-Hungary
died Oct. 30, 1945, Kraków
 Polish statesman and leader of the Peasant Party, who was three times prime minister of Poland (1920–21, 1923, 1926).

      Witos sat during 1908–14 in the Galician Sejm (Diet) of Austria-Poland and in 1911–18 in the Austrian Reichsrat (lower house of parliament). After World War I he was elected to the Sejm of the newly established republic of Poland and soon became the leader of the Peasant Party, then the strongest political group in the Sejm. From July 1920 to September 1921 he served as prime minister of an all-party coalition. In May–December 1923 he headed his second government but was unable to halt inflation and national unrest. Although initially identified with the parties of the left, Witos gradually emerged as a force for conservatism and in May 1926 formed his third administration on an exclusively right-of-centre base. Within a few days, however, his Cabinet was overthrown by a coup led by the national hero Józef Piłsudski. (Piłsudski, Józef)

      Thereafter, Witos remained in opposition to Piłsudski's thinly veiled dictatorship. He was imprisoned for political reasons in 1930 and again in 1932 was put under sentence, which was quashed as illegal (1933). Fearing a new arrest, however, he fled to Czechoslovakia. He subsequently returned to Poland but was imprisoned by the Germans in 1939. Arrested by the Russians in 1945, he was freed shortly before his death.

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