Adam Koc (31 August 1891-3 February 1969) was a Polish general and politician who co-founded the BBWR and served in the Sejm from 1928 to 1938 and in the Senate from 1938 to 1939.
Biography[]
Adam Koc was born in Suwalki, Congress Poland, Russian Empire on 31 August 1891, and he came from an aristocratic Polish family. He became involved with the national conservative National Democracy movement as youth, and he also joined the Union of Active Struggle in 1909. Koc served under Jozef Pilsudski in the Polish Military Organization during World War I, and he was wounded in Volhynia in September 1916. Koc was imprisoned by the Germans from June 1917 to 22 April 1918, and he served in the Polish Army during the Polish-Soviet War and also joined the Freemasons. In 1926, Koc took part in Pilsudski's May Coup, and he served in the Sejm from 1928 to 1938 and in the Senate from 1938 to 1939. In 1936, Koc co-founded the Camp of National Unity and became one of Edward Smigly-Rydz's chief supporters, and he served as Treasury Minister of the Second Polish Republic during the invasion of Poland before fleeing to the United States in 1940. He died in New York City in 1969.