Aleksander Prystor

Aleksander Prystor
Aleksander Prystor
23rd Prime Minister of Poland
In office
27 May 1931 – 9 May 1933
PresidentIgnacy Mościcki
Preceded byWalery Sławek
Succeeded byJanusz Jędrzejewicz
4th Marshal of the Senate
In office
4 October 1935 – 17 November 1938
PresidentIgnacy Mościcki
Prime MinisterWalery Sławek
Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski
Preceded byWładysław Raczkiewicz
Succeeded byBogusław Miedziński
Personal details
Born
Aleksander Błażej Prystor

(1874-01-02)January 2, 1874
Vilna, Russian Empire
(now Vilnius, Lithuania)
Died1941 (1942) (aged 67)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Cause of deathDysentery
Resting placePowązki Cemetery (symbolic)
NationalityPolish
Political partyPolish Socialist Party
Spouse
(m. 1906)
Alma materImperial Moscow University
Occupation
  • Politician
  • activist
  • soldier

Aleksander Błażej Prystor (Polish: [alɛˈksandɛr ˈprɨstɔr]; 2 January 1874 – 1941) was a Polish politician, activist, soldier and freemason, who served as 23rd Prime Minister of Poland from 1931 to 1933. He was a member of the Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party and in 1908 took part in the Bezdany raid. Between 1912 and 1917 he spent in Russian prisons before being released in 1917. In March 1917 he joined Polish Military Organisation. After independence, he became secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare. He fought as a volunteer in the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1920. He worked for a few ministries (Labour, Industry and Commerce). Between 1931 and 1933 he served as Prime Minister of Poland. After that, he became the Marshal of the Polish Senate 1935–1938.

After the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, he fled to neutral Lithuania. After Lithuania was annexed by the USSR he was arrested in June 1940 by the NKVD; he died probably in 1941 (the date is not known) in the prison hospital of the Butyrka prison in Moscow.[1]

  1. ^ Piotrowski, Jacek (1994). Aleksander Prystor 1874-1941. Zarys biografii politycznej. Wrocław: Instytut Historyczny Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego. pp. 148–149. ISBN 83-85689-55-9.