Karol Popiel
Appearance
Karol Popiel | |
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Minister of Justice | |
In office 20 October 1941 – 20 January 1942 | |
Prime Minister | Władysław Sikorski |
Personal details | |
Born | 28 October 1887 Rzochów, Austria-Hungary |
Died | 6 June 1977 (aged 89) Rome, Italy |
Political party | National Workers' Party, Labor Party |
Karol Popiel (28 October 1887 – 6 June 1977) was a Polish politician of the Christian democracy tendency and writer. He was a member of Centrolew and Front Morges alliances, he later joined the Labour Party. He was a minister in the Polish government in exile during World War II, from 1941 to 1943. After the war, in 1945, he decided to return to Poland and joined the State National Council quasi-parliament, but refused to ally himself with the communists and with increasing repressions against the oppositions, and communist infiltration of Stronnictwo Pracy, he left Poland on 27 November 1947 and emigrated to the US. He died in Rome in 1977.
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- 1887 births
- 1977 deaths
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- People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
- National Workers' Union (Poland) politicians
- National Workers' Party politicians
- Labor Party (Stronnictwo Pracy) politicians
- Government ministers of Poland
- Members of the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic (1922–1927)
- Members of the State National Council
- Polish legionnaires (World War I)
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