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Kazimierz Bartel
Kazimierz Bartel | |
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 Kazimierz Bartel | |
| Prime Minister of Poland | |
| In office 29 December 1929 – 17 March 1930 | |
| President | Ignacy Mościcki |
| Preceded by | Kazimierz Świtalski |
| Succeeded by | Walery Sławek |
| In office 27 June 1928 – 14 April 1929 | |
| President | Ignacy Mościcki |
| Preceded by | Józef Piłsudski |
| Succeeded by | Kazimierz Świtalski |
| In office 15 May 1926 – 30 September 1926 | |
| President | Maciej Rataj (Acting) Ignacy Mościcki |
| Preceded by | Wincenty Witos |
| Succeeded by | Józef Piłsudski |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Kazimierz Władysław Bartel 3 March 1882 Lemberg, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 26 July 1941 (aged 59) Lemberg, General Government |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Political party | BBWR |
| Spouse | Maria Bartlowa |
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Kazimierz Władysław Bartel (Polish pronunciation: [kaˈʑimjɛʐ vwaˈdɨswav ˈbartɛl]; English: Casimir Bartel; 3 March 1882 – 26 July 1941) was a Polish mathematician, freemason, scholar, diplomat and politician who served as 15th, 17th and 19th Prime Minister of Poland three times between 1926 and 1930 and the Senator of Poland from 1937 until the outbreak of World War II.[1]
Bartel was appointed Minister of Railways between 1919 and 1920, in 1922–1930 he was a member of Poland's Sejm. After Józef Piłsudski's May Coup d'état in 1926, he became prime minister and held this post during three broken tenures: 1926, 1928–29, 1929–1930. Bartel was the Deputy Prime Minister between 1926–1928 and Minister of Religious Beliefs and Public Enlightenment, when Piłsudski himself assumed the premiership, however, Bartel was in fact "de facto" prime minister during this period as Piłsudski did not concern himself with the day-to-day functions of the cabinet and the government.[1]
In 1930 upon giving up politics, he returned to the university as professor of mathematics. In 1930 he became rector of the Lwów Polytechnic and was soon awarded an honorary doctorate and membership in the Polish Mathematical Association. In 1937 he was appointed a Senator of Poland and held this post until World War II.
After the Soviet invasion and occupation of eastern Poland, he was allowed to continue lecturing at the Technical Institute. In 1940 he was summoned to Moscow and offered a seat in the Soviet parliament.
On 30 June 1941, in the course of Operation Barbarossa, the German Wehrmacht entered Lwów and began persecuting the local intelligentsia. Bartel was imprisoned two days later by the Gestapo and offered the top post in a Polish puppet government.[2][3] His ultimate refusal of the German terms was taken as an act of treason by the Germans.[4] By order of Heinrich Himmler, Bartel was murdered on 26 July 1941, shortly after the Massacre of Lwów professors had ended.[5]
- ^ a b "Kazimierz Bartel » Witryna edukacyjna Kancelarii Senatu". Archived from the original on 14 April 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
- ^ Wells, Leon Weliczker (1995). Shattered Faith: A Holocaust Legacy. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0813119316.
- ^ Allen, Arthur (21 July 2014). The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393244014.
- ^ Steinhaus, Hugo (28 December 2015). Mathematician for All Seasons: Recollections and Notes Vol. 1 (1887–1945). Birkhäuser. ISBN 9783319219844.
- ^ "Bartel Kazimierz - Ludzie - Wirtualny Sztetl". Archived from the original on 3 August 2016. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
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