List of Government Delegates for Poland
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The following were the Government Delegates for Poland (Delegat Rządu na Kraj) during World War II:
- Cyryl Ratajski (Wartski)— November 1939 (officially, from December 1940) – August 1942; died October 19, 1943.
- Jan Piekałkiewicz (Juliański)—until February 19, 1943; arrested by the Gestapo, and killed in the Pawiak prison on June 19, 1943.
- Jan Stanisław Jankowski (Sobol)—until February 1945; arrested by the NKVD on February 28, 1945, tried in the Trial of the Sixteen, and killed in a Soviet prison on February 13, 1953.
- Stefan Korboński (Zieliński)—until June 1945. Emigrated, and died on April 23, 1989.
- Jerzy Braun-from June 1945; arrested in 1948; emigrated in 1965 to Italy.
The above Delegates were officially administering the
territories annexed to the Soviet Union
were not able to develop properly.
- Adolf Bniński was the Delegate for the territories annexed by Germany; he held this position from December 1940 till his arrest in July 1941[1]
- Leon Mikołajczyk was Bniński's successor; after his arrest, in February 1942 the Delegate Office in Poznań lost its status as an independent office and became administered by the Warsaw office [1]
- Polish government in exile)[2]
See also
Notes
- ^ ISBN 83-02-05500-X, p.41-42
- ISBN 83-02-05500-X, p.40