Leopold Skulski

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Leopold Skulski (15 November 1878-after 1939, likely in 1940) was prime minister of Poland from 1919 to 1920.

He was involved in politics from at least mid 1910s, and became the mayor of Łódź from 1917 till 1919. He became the deputy for Polish parliament (Sejm) in 1919 elections, and on 13 December 1919 he became the Prime Minister of Poland. His government resigned on 9 June, in the aftermath of the failure of the Kiev Offensive and the success of the Bolshevick counteroffensive. He was also the Minister of Foreign Affairs under the government of Wincenty Witos (from 24 July 1920 till 28 June 1921). Member of The State Tribunal of Poland from 1925. President of the Polish Radio in the 1930s, he didn't take an active role in the political life in that last decade of his life. During the Invasion of Poland he was arrested in Pińsk by Soviet NKVD, shortly thereafter he died in NKVD prison in Brześć Litewski.