Aleksander Prystor
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Aleksander Prystor
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Prime Minister of Poland 22nd Prime Minister of the Second Republic of Poland |
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In office 27 May 1931 – 9 May 1933 |
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| Preceded by | Walery Sławek |
| Succeeded by | Janusz Jędrzejewicz |
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In office 4 October 1935 – 17 November 1938 |
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| Preceded by | Władysław Raczkiewicz |
| Succeeded by | Bogusław Miedziński |
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Aleksander Błażej Prystor 2 January 1874 Vilnius, Russian Empire (now Lithuania) |
| Died | 1941 (aged 66–67) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Resting place | Powązki Cemetery (symbolic) |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Political party | Polish Socialist Party |
| Occupation | Politician, soldier |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Aleksander Błażej Prystor (Polish: [alɛˈksandɛr ˈprɨstɔr]; 1874–1941) was a Polish politician, soldier and activist who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 1931 to 1933. He was a member of the Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party and in 1908 took part in the Bezdany raid. Between 1912 and 1917 he spent in Russian prisons before being released in 1917. In March 1917 he joined Polish Military Organisation. After independce he became secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare. He fought as a volunteer in the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1920. He worked for few ministries (Labour, Industry and Commerce). Between 1931 and 1933 he served as Prime Minister of Poland. After that he became the Marshal of the Polish Senate 1935-1938.
After the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, he fled to neutral Lithuania. After Lithuania was annexed by the USSR he was arrested in June 1940 by the NKVD; he died probably in 1941 (the date is not known) in the prison hospital of the Butyrka prison in Moscow.
Aleksander Prystor was born in Vilnius, Russian Empire, to a railroad worker Feliks Prystor and Maria (née Olejnik). In 1894 he graduated from the Second High School in Vilna, and began studying mathematics and physics at Moscow University. Lacking financial support of his family, Prystor lived in poverty. After graduation in 1900, he decided to study medicine at the University of Tartu. In the summer of 1902, he returned to Vilna, taking a job in a bank. Between November 1903 and September 1904, Prystor served in the 16th Sapper Battalion of the Imperial Russian Army.
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