- The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is Janusz Jędrzejewicz.
Janusz Jędrzejewicz (1885-1951) - was a Polish politician and teacher, one of the leaders of Sanacja and a Prime Minister of Poland (1933-1934).
Since 1904 in Piłsudski's PPS. After the World War I broke out he joined the Polish Legions and the Polska Organizacja Wojskowa. In 1918 he joined the Polish Army where he served as aide to Józef Piłsudski. In 1919 he was transferred to the 2nd Detachment of the Lithuanian-Belarussian Front Headquarters (intelligence) and later to the General Staff.
After the Polish-Bolshevik War, in 1923 Jędrzejewicz became a politician. He was elected to the Polish Sejm (1928-35) and later a senator. In the years 1930 - 1935 he was the vice-president of the Bezpartyjny Blok Współpracy z Rządem (BBWR) party. Between August 12, 1931 and February 22, 1934, a minister of education. He prepared and passed a reform named after his name the Jędrzejewicz's Reform. Between May 10, 1933 and May 13, 1934 a Prime Minister of Poland.
In 1926 he also organised the Wiedza i Życie monthly. In 1929 he also organised a teachers' union Zrąb and various other educational societies, among them the Polish Academy of Literature. He was also one of the authors of the 1935 constitution of Poland. After Piłsudski's death he opposed the OZN and the right-wing part of the Sanacja movement and he retired from political life.
After the Soviet invasion during the Polish Defence War of 1939 he fled to Romania and later through Palestine to London. In 1948 he was chosen the head of Liga Niepodległości Polski, a political party in exile. He died in 1951.
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