Janusz Jędrzejewicz
Janusz Jędrzejewicz
(21 June 1885 – 16 March 1951) was a Polish
politician
and educator, a leader of the Sanacja
political group, and Prime
Minister of Poland from 1933 to 1934.
Life
He joined
Józef
Piłsudski's
Polish Socialist
Party in 1904. After
World War I
broke out, he joined the
Polish Legions and the
Polish Military
Organization. In 1918 he joined the
Polish Army and served as
aide 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 Polish
Sejm (1928–35) and later a
senator. In 1930–1935 he was vice-president of the
Bezpartyjny Blok
Współpracy z Rządem (BBWR) party. From
August 12,
1931, to
February 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." From
May 10,
1933, to
May 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 1935
Polish Constitution. After Piłsudski's
death in 1935, he opposed the
OZON party and
the right wing of the
Sanacja 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 to
London
. 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 married
Cezaria
Baudouin de Courtenay Ehrenkreutz Jędrzejewiczowa, one of the
pioneers of ethnography in Poland.
See also
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