Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski

politician and economist.

After Józef Piłsudski's May coup d'etat of 1926 in the Second Polish Republic, he was recommended by president Ignacy Mościcki for the post Minister of Industry and Trade in the government of Kazimierz Bartel.

Among the most famous achievements of Kwiatkowski are the giant construction projects: the construction of Gdynia seaport, the development of the Polish Merchant Navy and sea trade, and the creation of the Centralny Okręg Przemysłowy industrial region.

After the Soviet Union joined Nazi Germany in the invasion of Poland in 1939, he evacuated Poland with the rest of the Government on 17 September. He was interned in Romania until 1945. He returned to Poland and supervised the projects of reconstruction of the Polish seacoast, and in the years 1947–1952, he was a deputy to the Polish parliament (Sejm).

With the strengthening of the communist and Soviet grip on the Polish government, which he opposed, he fell out of favour of the communist government of the People's Republic of Poland and was forced to retire in 1948. From 1952 onward, he concentrated on studies of chemistry and physics.

He died in Kraków on 22 August 1974.

Bibliography

* Janusz Zaręba, "Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski - romantyczny pragmatyk", Centrum Edukacji i Rozwoju Biznesu. Instytut Naukowo-Wydawniczy, Warszawa, 1998 (ISBN 83-86069-85-6)
* "Archiwum polityczne Eugeniusza Kwiatkowskiego", Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, Warszawa, 2002 (ISBN 83-7059-612-6)
* Marian Marek Drozdowski, "Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski", Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich - Wydawnictwo, Wrocław, 2001 (ISBN 83-04-04567-2)
* Marian Marek Drozdowski, " Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski w polskiej historiografii i publicystyce historyczno-ekonomicznej", Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Warszawa, 1992 (ISBN 83-900329-3-7)
* Marian Marek Drozdowski, " Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski : człowiek i dzieło", Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków, 1989 (ISBN 83-08-02092-5)