Mikolajczyk, Stanislaw

Biographical Note

• 1901 July 18: Born, Holsterhausen, Westphalia, Germany
• 1918: Member and active participant of Sokoly, Polish insurrection against the Germans
• 1920: Private, Polish Army, Polish-Russo War Graduated from Agricultural High School, People's University
• 1924: Secretary, Polish Peasant Party, Poznan district Editor, Wloscianin Wielkopolski
• 1930 - 1935 : Parliament member, Polish Peasant Party
• 1935: Chairman, Poznan Association of Agricultural Circles
• 1937: Leader, peasant strikes
• 1939: Private, September campaign Interned in Hungary; escaped to France Vice-President, Polish Parliament in exile
• 1939 - 1941 : Acting President, Polish National Council
• 1941 - 1942 : Minister of Interior
• 1941 - 1943 : Deputy Prime Minister, Sikorski government
• 1943 July - 1944 November : Prime Minister
• 1944: Went to Moscow and Washington
• 1945: Deputy Prime Minister, Warsaw, Provisional Polish Government of National Unity Minister of Agriculture President, Polish Peasant Party
• 1947 June: Resigned from government posts Leader of parliamentary opposition
• 1947 October 20: Left Poland
• 1947 November 26: Arrived in New York
• 1948: Founder, Polish Peasant Party in exile
• 1948 - 1964 : President, International Peasant Union
• 1950: President, Polish National Democratic Committee
• 1950 - 1966 : President, Assembly of Captive European Nations
• 1951: Member, Central and Eastern European Committee
• 1955: Went to Japan
• 1956: Presided over International Peasant Union Congress, Paris
• 1966 December 13: Died

From the guide to the Stanislaw Mikolajczyk Papers, 1899-1966, (Hoover Institution Archives)