Ignacy Mościcki
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Ignacy Mościcki was a Polish chemist and politician who was the country's president from 1926 to 1939. He was the longest serving president in Polish history. Mościcki was the president of Poland when
Ignacy Mościcki
Mościcki bestows the buława (the Marshal of Poland's baton) on Edward Rydz-Śmigły in 1936
First family of Poland (1930)
The former graves of Mościcki (left) and of his daughter Helena and son-in-law Aleksander Bobkowski (right) in Versoix.
Edward Śmigły-Rydz
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Marshal Edward Śmigły-Rydz also Edward Rydz-Śmigły was a Polish politician, statesman, Marshal of Poland and Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces, as well as a painter and poet.
Ignacy Mościcki
…Piłsudski's death in 1935, his followers divided into three main factions: those supporting Mościcki as Piłsudski's successor, those supporting General Edward Rydz-Śmigły and those supporting Prime Minister Walery Sławek. With a view to eliminating Sławek from the game, Mościcki concluded a power-sharing agreement with…
Śmigly-Rydz among a group of officers of the Polish Legions.
Śmigły-Rydz with Marshal Józef Piłsudski during the Polish-Soviet War
Śmigly-Rydz at army inspectors' conference, 1926