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Stanisław "Cat" Mackiewicz (18 December 1896 in Saint Petersburg, Russia – 18 February 1966 in Warsaw, Poland) was a conservative Polish writer, journalist and monarchist.

Stanisław Mackiewicz
Stanisław Mackiewicz
37th Prime Minister of Poland
7th Prime Minister of the Polish Republic in Exile
In office
8 June 1954  21 June 1955
Preceded byJerzy Hryniewski
Succeeded byHugon Hanke
Member of the Sejm
In office
1928–1935
Personal details
Born(1896-12-18)18 December 1896
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died18 February 1966(1966-02-18) (aged 69)
Warsaw, Poland
Resting placePowązki Cemetery, Warsaw
NationalityPolish
Political partyBBWR
OccupationPolitician, writer

Interwar journalist Adolf Maria Bocheński called him the foremost political journalist of the interbellum Second Polish Republic.[1]


Life


Mackiewicz was born into a Polish family that had historically used the Bożawola coat-of-arms.

Bożawola coat of arms
Bożawola coat of arms

Mackiewicz joined the Polish Military Organisation in 1917 and served as a volunteer in the Polish Army during the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–21. He published and the editor-in-chief of the independent Wilno (Vilnius) periodical titled "Słowo," wholly financially supported by the noble families of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania. He actively promoted the idea of the so-called Jagellonian Poland, i.e., return to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth style of governance in Eastern Europe.

He supported Józef Piłsudski[2] and in 1928–35 served as a deputy to the Sejm (Poland's parliament), representing the Piłsudskiite Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government.

After Piłsudski's death in 1935, Mackiewicz criticized the ruling elite and in 1939 was imprisoned for 17 days at the Bereza Kartuska detention camp.

On 18 September 1939, a day after the Soviet attack on eastern Poland during the Soviet-German Invasion of Poland, he left Poland.

Following the Yalta Conference and subsequent occupation by Stalin of Poland and the later establishment of the Communist Poland, Mackiewicz, like so many other political exiles, remained abroad and was politically active in the Polish émigré community. He served as prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile in 1954–55.

In 1956, Mackiewicz returned to Poland, where he continued writing under the pseudonym of Gaston de Cerizay.[3] In 1964 he was one of the signatories of the so-called Letter of 34 to Prime Minister Józef Cyrankiewicz regarding freedom of culture.

He was the older brother of ardent enemy of the communist system, writer Józef Mackiewicz.


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Notes


  1. Piotr Zychowicz: W obronie Stanisława Augusta at Rzeczpospolita, 22 January 2010.
  2. Krzysztof Masłoń: Błazeńska czapka Cata-Mackiewicza Archived 8 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine at Rzeczpospolita, 4 August 2010.
  3. Neubauer, John (editor) 2009 The Exile and Return of Writers from East-Central Europe: A Compendium, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co, Berlin ISBN 978-3-11-021773-5 (p. 177)
Political offices
Preceded by
Jerzy Hryniewski
Prime Minister of the Polish Republic in Exile
1954–1955
Succeeded by
Hugon Hanke

На других языках


- [en] Stanisław Mackiewicz

[ru] Мацкевич, Станислав (премьер-министр)

Станислав Мацкевич, Цат (польск. Stanisław Mackiewicz; 18 декабря 1896[2], Санкт-Петербург — 18 февраля 1966[2], Варшава[1]) — польский писатель и публицист, премьер-министр Правительства Республики Польша в изгнании 1954—1955. Брат Юзефа. В 1964 г. подписал письмо 34-х интеллектуалов премьер-министру Юзефу Циранкевичу, в котором содержался призыв к изменению польской культурной политики в соответствии с правами, закреплёнными в Конституции.



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