Leopold Skulski

Leopold Skulski
Leopold Skulski
Prime Minister of Poland 3rd Prime Minister of the Second Republic of Poland
In office 13 December 1919 – 9 June 1920
Preceded by	Ignacy Paderewski
Succeeded by	Władysław Grabski
Minister of Interior of Poland
In office 24 July 1920 – 28 June 1921
Preceded by	Józef Kuczyński
Succeeded by	Władysław Raczkiewicz
Personal details
Born	(1877-11-15)15 November 1877 Zamość, Russian Empire
Died	1940 (aged 62–63) Brest, Soviet Union
Nationality	Polish
Political party	Polish People's Party "Piast"
Occupation	Politician, chemist
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Leopold Skulski (Polish pronunciation: [lɛˈɔpɔlt ˈskulskʲi]; 15 November 1878, Zamość – after 1939, likely in 1940) was prime minister of Poland from 1919 to 1920.

He was involved in politics from at least the mid 1910s, and served as mayor of Łódź between 1917 an 1919. He became a deputy in the Polish parliament (Sejm) after the 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 Bolshevik counteroffensive. He was also the Minister of Internal Affairs under the government of Wincenty Witos (from 24 July 1920 to 28 June 1921). He was a member of the State Tribunal of Poland from 1925. President of the Polish Radio in the 1930s, he did not take an active role in political life in the last decade of his life.

During the Invasion of Poland he was arrested in Pińsk by the Soviet NKVD; shortly thereafter he died in the NKVD prison in Brest.