Aleksy Ćwiakowski (5 April 1895 – 4 August 1953) was a Polish political activist of the 1920s whose influence rested in his status as the co-founder and leader of the country's

monarchist Monarchism is the advocacy of the system of monarchy or monarchical rule. A monarchist is an individual who supports this form of government independently of any specific monarch, whereas one who supports a particular monarch is a royalist. ...

movement. A native of the

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village of Sygontka, Aleksy Ćwiakowski withdrew from politics in 1930 and, during the destruction of

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and subsequent

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takeover, was able to make his way to

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, where he died in the year of his 58th birthday, 1953.

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1895 births 1953 deaths People from Częstochowa County Polish politicians Polish monarchists Polish emigrants to the United Kingdom {{Poland-politician-stub