Jan Piekałkiewicz (19 September 1892 – 19 February 1943) was a

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and

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and the

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Biography

Jan Piekałkiewicz was born on the 19 September 1892 in

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, to a Polish

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family. He studied in

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and in

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.Piekałkiewicz Jan
,

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. Retrieved on 28 May 2009. He was an employee of the Central Statistical Office, and was one of the organizers of the

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.PIEKAŁKIEWICZ Jan (1892-1943)

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. Retrieved on 28 May 2009. From 1923 to 1924 he was a professor at the

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. From 1924 to 1939 he lectured in the Main Political School in Warsaw, and published over 50 works on finances, economics (in particular,

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) and statistics. He was a member of the

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, and in 1927 he became a member of the

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. He worked with the Statistical Commission of the

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. He was considered a leading Polish expert on economical statistics. He was a member of the Polish People's Party "Piast" (''PSL "Piast"'', from 1926) and People's Party (''Stronnictwo Ludowe'', from 1931). From 1938 to 1939 he was a member of the Main Council of the People's Party. Following the

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, from 1940 he was a member of the underground arm of the People's Party, the

People's Party "Roch" People's, branded as ''People's ViennaLine'' until May 2018, and legally ''Altenrhein Luftfahrt GmbH'', is an Austro-Swiss airline headquartered in Vienna, Austria. It operates scheduled and charter passenger flights mainly from its base at St. ...

(''Stronnictwo Ludowe "Roch"''). In December 1940 he became Deputy to the

and on 2 August (or 17 SeptemberGrzegorz Ostas
The Polish Government-in-Exile's Home Delegature
30 September 2003. Retrieved on 28 May 2009. - sources vary) 1942 he replaced

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 s ...

as Delegate. As Delegate, he confirmed the creation of the Council to Aid Jews

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and extension of full aid to Polish political prisoners. He also ordered the full documentation of the

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and the Jews. He informed the

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about

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. He supported the studies on the creation of the post-war Polish-German border on

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and

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. In his speeches to the nation, published in

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, he called up everyone to join in the civil struggles and warned collaborators that they faced the death penalty for betraying the Polish nation. He also wanted to establish cooperation between the

, loyal to the

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, and the communist Polish Workers Party (PPR). As Delegate, he was succeeded by

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 ...

. He was arrested by the Germans on 19 February 1943, tortured, then murdered on 19 June 1943.Paweł Dubiel, Józef Kozak: Polacy w II wojnie światowej: kim byli, co robili. Warszawa: Oficyna Wydawnicza RYTM, 2003, p. 123. . In 1995 he was posthumously awarded the Order of the White Eagle.

Works

*Atlas statystyczny Polski, with Ignacy Weinfeld and Edward Szturm de Sztrem, tome 1 in 1924, tome 2 in 1925 *O programie gospodarczym Polski, with Brunon Balukiewicz *La Pologne contemporaine : atlas statistique, 1926 *Bilans płatniczy polski = La Balance des payements de la Pologne, 1926 *Okrȩgi gospodarcze Polski : Les régions économiques de la Pologne, 1927 *Długi samorządu terytorjalnego = Les dettes des administrations autonomes territoriales, 1929 *Le service statistique des banques de crédit agricole hypothécaire, 1931 *La statistique de l'activité économique des entreprises d'état, 1933 *Statistique du crédit hypothécaire, 1933 *Sprawozdanie z badań skladu ludności robotniczej w Polsce metoda̜ reprezentacyjna̜, 1934

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Photo of Jan PiekałkiewiczJan Piekałkiewicz (in the middle) on a 1988 Polish stamp
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