Tadeusz Michejda

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Tadeusz Michejda (26 September 1879 in Nawsie, Austria-Hungary - 18 May 1956 in Warszawa, Poland) was a Polish physician and politician.

Tadeusz Michejda was born to a Franciszek Michejda, Lutheran pastor. He graduated from a state gymnasium in Teschen and later studied medicine at universities in Kraków, Prague and Vienna. After his graduation worked as a doctor in Vienna and later became a municipal doctor in Horní Suchá.

After World War I was a member of Rada Narodowa Księstwa Cieszyńskiego and worked in preparations to hold a plebiscite in Cieszyn Silesia. In 1920 Cieszyn Silesia was divided between Czechoslovakia and Poland. Michejda's hometown and surrounding region became a part of Czechoslovakia, now known as Zaolzie. Michejda decided to stay in Poland where he worked many years in several localities as a doctor. He was a senator for Narodowa Partia Robotnicza from 1930 to 1935. He was a deputy in Sejm from 1945 to 1952 and a Minister of Health from 1947 to 1951 and a Minister without Portfolio from 1951 to 1952. Michejda was a member of Stronnictwo Demokratyczne, and a vice-chairman of Polish Red Cross. Tadeusz Michejda died in Warsaw and was buried in Kraków.

[edit] References

• Myška, Milan (2000). Biografický slovník Slezska a severní Moravy. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita. ISBN 80-7042-547-4. 

Government offices
Preceded by Franciszek Litwin	Minister of Health of Poland 1947 – 1951	Succeeded by Jerzy Sztachelski