Aleksander Prystor, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Aleksander Prystor

Prime Minister of Poland

Date of Birth: 02-Jan-1874

Place of Birth: Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1941

Profession: politician, military officer

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Aleksander Blazej Prystor (Polish: [al?'ksand?r 'pr?st?r]; 2 January 1874 – 1941) was a Polish politician, activist, soldier and freemason, who served as 23rd Prime Minister of Poland from 1931 to 1933.
He was a member of the Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party and in 1908 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.
After Lithuania was annexed by the USSR he was arrested in June 1940 by the NKVD; he died probably in 1941 (the date is not known) in the prison hospital of the Butyrka prison in Moscow.