Aleksander Prystor
Politician
1874 – 1941
Who was Aleksander Prystor?
Aleksander Błażej Prystor was a Polish politician, soldier and activist who served as 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 independce 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 few ministries
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 in 1941 in the prison hospital of the Butyrka prison in Moscow.
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- Born
- Jan 2, 1874
Vilnius - Also known as
- Пристор, Александр
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Died
- 1941
Butyrka prison
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on July 23, 2013
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