Tytus Filipowicz (1873–1953) was a Polish politician and diplomat.

Life

Filipowicz was born on 21 November 1873 in

Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...

. He attended school in

Dąbrowa Górnicza Dąbrowa Górnicza () is a city in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie, southern Poland, near Katowice and Sosnowiec. It is located in eastern part of the Silesian Voivodeship, on the Czarna Przemsza and Biała Przemsza rivers (tributaries of the Vistula Rive ...

. He worked as a coal miner and became a

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political activist; from 1895 he was active in the Dąbrowa Workers' Committee. Zygmunt Woźniczka
"''Ci, którzy rozsławili Dąbrowę Górniczą''"
''gazeta.pl'', 2006-11-14 He became an active member of the

Polish Socialist Party The Polish Socialist Party (, PPS) is a democratic socialist political party in Poland. It was one of the most significant parties in Poland from its founding in 1892 until its forced merger with the communist Polish Workers' Party to form ...

(''PPS'') and editor of a socialist paper for miners (''Górnik'', Miner). In 1901 he was arrested by the authorities but escaped to Russian-ruled

. During the ''PPS'' split, he sided with the

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and became a close collaborator of future Polish statesman

Józef Piłsudski Józef Klemens Piłsudski (; 5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State (Poland), Chief of State (1918–1922) and first Marshal of Poland (from 1920). In the aftermath of World War I, he beca ...

.Marek Kornat, "''Posłowie i ambasadorzy polscy w Związku Sowieckim (1921–1939 i 1941–1943)''" ("Polish Diplomatic Representatives and Ambassadors in the Soviet Union (1921–39 and 1941–43"), ''The Polish Diplomatic Review'', 5 (21)/2004, pp. 129-20
online
/ref> He accompanied Piłsudski on his 1904 voyage to

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. In 1905 Filipowicz was imprisoned by the

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in the

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, but escaped. Under the

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, he was briefly deputy
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short biographical note in an article in the periodical ''Wspólnota Polska'' or acting (sources vary) Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (11–17 November 1918). Later he was named Poland's ambassador to

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—due to his involvement in Piłsudski's Prometheist project—but in the aftermath of the

Soviet invasion of Georgia The Red Army invasion of Georgia (12 February17 March 1921), also known as the Georgian–Soviet War or the Soviet invasion of Georgia,Debo, R. (1992). ''Survival and Consolidation: The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia, 1918-1921'', pp. 182, 361� ...

(which was subsequently annexed as the

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) he did not assume this post but was instead arrested there by the Soviets and interned. After the

treaty of Riga The Treaty of Riga was signed in Riga, Latvia, on between Poland on one side and Soviet Russia (acting also on behalf of Soviet Belarus) and Soviet Ukraine on the other, ending the Polish–Soviet War (1919–1921). The chief negotiators of ...

ended the Polish-Soviet War in 1921, he became the first Polish

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in the

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, organizing the Polish embassy there. Later he was a diplomat in

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and the

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(1929-32). In 1934, with

Gabriel Czechowicz Gabriel Czechowicz (1876-1938) was a Polish lawyer, economist and politician. He was the Polish Treasury Minister from 1926 to 1929. Accused of misuse of government funds, Czechowicz was the only Polish politician of the interwar period that fa ...

, Filipowicz co-founded the Polish Radical Party (''Polska Partia Radykalna''), a dissident offshoot of

Sanation Sanation (, ) was a Polish political movement that emerged in the interwar period, prior to Józef Piłsudski's May 1926 ''Coup d'État'', and gained influence following the coup. In 1928, its political activists went on to form the Nonpartisa ...

that, while largely adhering to

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, advocated that Poland become a

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state, with official preferences given to ethnic Poles, and Jews being encouraged to emigrate. During and after

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, Filipowicz was a member of the

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and of the National Council of the Republic of Poland (1941–42 and 1949–53). He died on 18 August 1953 in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Filipowicz, Tytus 1873 births 1953 deaths Politicians from Warsaw People from Warsaw Governorate Ambassadors of Poland to the United States Diplomats of the Second Polish Republic Ambassadors of Poland to Georgia (country) Ambassadors of Poland to Finland

Life

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