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Kazimierz Bartel (1882-1941), was a Polish mathematician and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (1926-1930).
Born in Lemberg on March 3, 1882. After completing secondary school he studied at the Lwów Technical University at Machine Building Department. He graduated in 1907 and soon became an assistant at the Descriptive Geometry Faculty. By 1914 he became a professor at his alma mater.
During World War I conscripted to the Austro-Hungarian army, returned to Lwów in 1918. In 1919 fought in the units defending Lwów against the Ukrainian siege as the commander of railway troops.
In 1919 appointed as the minister of railways, in the years 1922-1930 was a member of Polish parliament. After Pilsudski's coup d'etat in 1926 he became the prime minister and held this post for four years. In 1930 gave up politics and returned to his studies. In 1930 he became the rector of Lwów Technical University and soon he was awarded with the title of doctor honoris causa and membership of the Polish Association of Mathematics.
In this period he published his most important writings, among them a series of lectures on perspective in european painting throughout the ages. In 1937 he was appointed a senator of Poland and held this post until the war broke out.
After the Soviet occupation he was allowed to continue giving lectures at the, now renamed, Lvov Polytechnical Institute. In 1940 he was appointed to Moscow and proposed a seat in the Soviet parliament. He refused and returned to Lvov.
Soon after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, on June 30 1941 the Wehrmacht entered Lvov. Kazimierz Bartel was arrested two days later and imprisoned in Gestapo prison. He was offered to create a Polish puppet government. He refused and, by order of Heinrich Himmler, was shot on July 26, 1941. His place of burial remains unknown.
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