Wincenty Witos

Wincenty Witos (1874 - 1945) was leader of the Polish Peasant Party and periodically premier of Poland during the early 1920s. In 1926, his government was overthrown by an armed May coup d'etat led by Jozef Pilsudski. Witos was then imprisoned but escaped to Czechoslovakia only to be imprisoned again in 1939 by the invading Germans.

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Preceded by: Wladyslaw Grabski	Prime Minister of Poland 1920–1921	Succeeded by: Antonin Ponikowski
Preceded by: Wladyslaw Sikorski	Prime Minister of Poland 1923	Succeeded by: Wladyslaw Grabski
Preceded by: Aleksander Skrzynski	Prime Minister of Poland 1926	Succeeded by: Kazimierz Bartel

See also: Wincenty Witos, 1874, 1920s, 1926, 1939, 1945