- Janusz Jędrzejewicz
Janusz Jędrzejewicz (
21 June 1885 -16 March 1951 ) was a Polish politician and educator, a leader of theSanacja political group, and Prime Minister of Poland from 1933 to 1934.He joined
Józef Piłsudski 'sPolish Socialist Party in 1904. AfterWorld War I broke out, he joined the Polish Legions and thePolish Military Organization . In 1918 he joined thePolish Army and served asaide to Piłsudski. In 1919 he was transferred to Section II (Intelligence) at the Lithuanian-Belarusian Front Headquarters, and later to the General Staff.After the
Polish-Bolshevik War , in 1923 Jędrzejewicz became a politician. He was elected a deputy to the PolishSejm (1928-35) and later a senator. In 1930 - 1935 he was vice-president of the Bezpartyjny Blok Współpracy z Rządem (BBWR) party. FromAugust 12 ,1931 , toFebruary 22 ,1934 , he served as minister of education. He introduced a reform of Poland's educational system that came to be named, after him, "Jędrzejewicz's Reform ." FromMay 10 ,1933 , toMay 13 ,1934 , he was Prime Minister of Poland.In 1926 he founded the monthly, "
Wiedza i Życie ". In 1929 he organized a teachers' union, "Zrąb", and other educational societies, including the Polish Academy of Literature. He was also co-author of the 1935Polish Constitution . After Piłsudski's death in 1935, he opposed theOZON party and the right wing of theSanacja movement, and retired from political life.After the Soviet invasion during the Polish Defensive War of 1939, he fled to
Romania and later through Palestine toLondon . In 1948 he was chosen to be head of Liga Niepodległości Polski, a political party in exile. He died in 1951.He was a brother of
Wacław Jędrzejewicz and marriedCezaria Baudouin de Courtenay Ehrenkreutz Jędrzejewiczowa , one of the pioneers of ethnography in Poland.References
* "Jędrzejewicz, Janusz," "
Encyklopedia Polski ", p. 256.
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