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The following were the Government Delegates for Poland (Delegat Rządu na Kraj) during World War II:
The above Delegates were officially administering the General Government
from an office in Warsaw
, but eventually they ended administering the entire occupied Poland, as posts for Delegates for territories annexed to Germany and territories annexed to the Soviet Union were not able to develop properly.
- Cyryl RatajskiCyryl RatajskiCyryl Ratajski was a Polish politician and lawyer.He was the president of Poznań in the years 1922-1924, 1925-1934 and in September 1939. In the years 1924-1925 he was the Polish Minister of the Interior.From 1937 he was a member of Labour Party, Stronnictwo Pracy...
(Wartski)— November 1939 (officially, from December 1940) – August 1942; died October 19, 1943. - Jan PiekałkiewiczJan PiekałkiewiczJan Piekałkiewicz was a Polish economist and statistician, politician and the Polish Underground State's Government Delegate.-Biography:...
(Juliański)—until February 19, 1943; arrested by the GestapoGestapoThe Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police...
, and killed in the PawiakPawiakPawiak was a prison built in 1835 in Warsaw, Poland.During the January 1863 Uprising, it served as a transfer camp for Poles sentenced by Imperial Russia to deportation to Siberia....
prison on June 19, 1943. - Jan Stanisław Jankowski (Sobol)—until February 1945; arrested by the NKVDNKVDThe People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the public and secret police organization of the Soviet Union that directly executed the rule of power of the Soviets, including political repression, during the era of Joseph Stalin....
on February 28, 1945, tried in the Trial of the SixteenTrial of the SixteenThe Trial of the Sixteen was a staged trial of 16 leaders of the Polish Underground State held by the Soviet Union in Moscow in 1945.-History:Some accounts say approaches were made in February with others saying March 1945...
, and killed in a Soviet prison on February 13, 1953. - Stefan Korboński (Zieliński)—until June 1945. Emigrated, and died on April 23, 1989.
The above Delegates were officially administering the General Government
General Government
The General Government was an area of Second Republic of Poland under Nazi German rule during World War II; designated as a separate region of the Third Reich between 1939–1945...
from an office in Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
, but eventually they ended administering the entire occupied Poland, as posts for Delegates for territories annexed to Germany and territories annexed to the Soviet Union were not able to develop properly.
- Adolf BnińskiAdolf BnińskiAdolf Bniński was a Polish agricultural, conservative and royalist activist. He was Voivode of Poznań from 1923-1928 and a member of the Senate of Poland in the Second Polish Republic. In the aftermath of the German invasion of Poland he was the Government Delegate for Poland for the Polish...
was the Delegate for the territories annexed by Germany; he held this position from December 1940 till his arrest in July 1941 - 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
- Władysław Zych was the acting Delegate for the Soviet occupied territories (he was never officially confirmed in this position by the Polish government in exilePolish government in ExileThe Polish government-in-exile, formally known as the Government of the Republic of Poland in Exile , was the government in exile of Poland formed in the aftermath of the Invasion of Poland of September 1939, and the subsequent occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, which...
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