Everything about Gabriel Narutowicz totally explained
Gabriel Narutowicz (
March 17 1865 –
December 16 1922) was the first President of
Poland. He was
assassinated only a week after his election.
Early years and career
Born into a
Lithuanian noble family in
Telšiai,
Lithuania, then under the Russian
Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Narutowicz had been a professor at the
Polytechnic Institute in
Zurich,
Switzerland, from 1908, and had directed the construction of many
hydroelectric plants in western Europe.
After Poland regained independence in 1918, he became involved in Polish national politics, serving as Minister of Public Works (1920-21) and as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1922). He was widely recongized as one of the earlier Polish statesmen.
Election and brief Presidency
Supported by the
"Liberation" party, Narutowicz decided to run for
President of Poland. On
December 9,
1922, he was elected by the Polish parliament (the
Sejm), convening as the
National Assembly of Poland, to be Poland's first president, and was sworn in on
December 11.
His election, supported by leftist, centrist, peasant and
national-minority deputies, aroused the ire of right-wing deputies, particularly the
National Democrats. They emphasized that the deputies who had supported Narutowicz had included national-minorities representatives, and disparagingly called the newly-elected head of state "
their president" or "President of the
Jews". Narutowicz was also reproached for being an
atheist and belonging to a
Masonic lodge.
During his very short term in office he worked primary to appoint a new government, in place of Nowak's cabinet. However new cabinet was appointed by
Acting President Maciej Rataj after Narutowicz death and before Wojciechowski's took the office. Also Naturowicz's first act in office was commuting of a death sentence.
While working on appointing a new government, he proposed portfolio of Foreign Affairs Minister to his main rival to the Presidency -
Maurycy Klemens Zamoyski.
On
December 16,
1922, five days after his inauguration, while attending the opening of an art exhibit at
Warsaw's
Zachęta Gallery, Narutowicz was shot dead by a mentally-deranged sympathizer of the
National Democrats, the art professor and critic,
Eligiusz Niewiadomski, who was sentenced to death and executed a month later.
Legacy
Warsaw's
Plac Narutowicza (Narutowicz Square) is named in his memory.
Family
Gabriel Narutowicz's brother,
Stanisław Narutowicz, was a member of the
State Council of Lithuania, and his signature appears on the
Lithuanian Act of Independence of
February 16 1918.
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