The following were the Government Delegates for Poland (''Delegat Rządu na Kraj'') during World War II: *

Cyryl Ratajski Cyryl Ratajski (3 March 1875 – 19 October 1942) was a Polish politician and lawyer. Life and career Ratajski was born in Zalesie Wielkie, then part of the German Empire, on 3 March 1875. He graduated from a high school in Poznań and st ...

(''Wartski'')— November 1939 (officially, from December 1940) – August 1942; died October 19, 1943. * Jan Piekałkiewicz (''Juliański'')—until February 19, 1943; arrested by the

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, and killed in the

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prison on June 19, 1943. *

Jan Stanisław Jankowski Jan Stanisław Jankowski (6 May 1882 – 13 March 1953; noms de guerre ''Doktor'', ''Jan'', ''Klonowski'', ''Sobolewski'', ''Soból'') was a Polish politician, an important figure in the Polish civil resistance during World War II and a ...

(''Sobol'')—until February 1945; arrested by the

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

on February 28, 1945, tried in the

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, and killed in a Soviet prison on February 13, 1953. *

Stefan Korboński Stefan Korboński (2 March 1901 in Praszka - 23 April 1989 in Washington, D.C., USA) was a Polish agrarian politician, lawyer, journalist, and a notable member of the wartime authorities of the Polish Secret State. Among others, he was the last ...

(''Zieliński'')—until June 1945. Emigrated, and died on April 23, 1989. *

Jerzy Braun Jerzy Braun can refer to: * Jerzy Braun (rower) (1911–1968), Polish rower * Jerzy Braun (writer) Jerzy Bronisław Braun, ps. "Bronisław Rogowski" (born September 1, 1901 in Dąbrowa Tarnowska, died October 17, 1975 in Rome) was a Polish writer, ...

-from June 1945; arrested in 1948; emigrated in 1965 to Italy. The above Delegates were officially administering the

General Government The General Government (german: Generalgouvernement, pl, Generalne Gubernatorstwo, uk, Генеральна губернія), also referred to as the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region (german: Generalgouvernement für die be ...

from an office in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

, but eventually they ended administering the entire

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, as posts for Delegates for territories annexed to Germany and territories annexed to the Soviet Union were not able to develop properly. * Adolf Bniński was the Delegate for the territories annexed by Germany; he held this position from December 1940 till his arrest in July 1941Stanisław Salmonowicz, ''Polskie Państwo Podziemne'', Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne, Warszawa, 1994, , p.41-42 *

Leon Mikołajczyk Leon, Léon (French) or León (Spanish) may refer to: Places Europe * León, Spain, capital city of the Province of León * Province of León, Spain * Kingdom of León, an independent state in the Iberian Peninsula from 910 to 1230 and again f ...

was Bniński's successor; after his arrest, in February 1942 the Delegate Office in Poznań lost its status as an independent office and became administered by the Warsaw office *

Władysław Zych Władysław is a Polish given male name, cognate with Vladislav. The feminine form is Władysława, archaic forms are Włodzisław (male) and Włodzisława (female), and Wladislaw is a variation. These names may refer to: Famous people Mononym * W ...

was the acting Delegate for the Soviet occupied territories (he was never officially confirmed in this position by the

Polish government in exile The Polish government-in-exile, officially known as the Government of the Republic of Poland in exile ( pl, Rząd Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na uchodźstwie), was the government in exile of Poland formed in the aftermath of the Invasion of Pola ...

)Stanisław Salmonowicz, ''Polskie Państwo Podziemne'', Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne, Warszawa, 1994, , p.40

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