Aleksander Prystor
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Aleksander Prystor (1874-1941) was a Polish politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 1931 to 1933.
In 1908 he 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, where he was arrested in 1940 by the NKWD, after the annexation by the USSR. He died in 1941 in the Butyrka prison in Moscow.
| Preceded by Walery Slawek |
Prime Minister of Poland 1931–1933 |
Succeeded by Janusz Jedrzejewicz |
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