How to Pronounce Stanisław Wojciechowski
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Mar 15, 1869 Kalisz, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland Died on 09 Apr 1953 (aged 84)
Polish politician and scientist
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About Stanisaw Wojciechowski
- Stanislaw Wojciechowski (Polish: [sta'?iswaf v?jt???'x?fsk?i]; 15 March 1869 – 9 April 1953) was a Polish politician, scholar, and activist in the cooperative movement.
- In 1922 he was elected the second President of the Republic of Poland following the assassination of Gabriel Narutowicz.
- He was ousted by the May Coup d'État of 1926.While a student at the University of Warsaw, Wojciechowski worked for the Polish Socialist movement, which at the time was a major force in the Polish independence effort.
- He was arrested by czarist police in 1891, and again in 1892.
- Upon his release he moved to Zurich, then to Paris and finally to London.
- In England he helped publish the Polish Socialist periodical Przedswit (“The Dawn”).
- Active in the socialist movement, he often travelled undercover to Russian Poland, and became friends with Józef Pilsudski.
- He also studied the cooperative movement, and on returning to Poland legally in 1906 he spent time working to develop Polish cooperatives. During World War I he considered Imperial Germany to be Poland’s main enemy.
- With the Russian evacuation in 1915, he moved to Moscow, and there in 1917 was elected president of the Council of Polish Parties’ Union.
- He returned to Warsaw after the October Revolution and from January 1919 to July 1920 served as minister of the interior in two separate cabinets of the new Second Polish Republic.
- When the Republic's president Gabriel Narutowicz was assassinated in December 1922, Wojciechowski was chosen to succeed him. During his presidency, Wojciechowski and his erstwhile friend military chief of staff Pilsudski disagreed on the political direction of the nation: Wojciechowski supported continued parliamentary government, while Pilsudski favoured a more authoritarian approach.
- In May 1926, due to the worsening economic issues of the country, Pilsudski staged the successful May Coup, after which Wojciechowski resigned from his post.
