Adam Skwarczynski (3 December 1886-1934) was a Polish politician and co-founder of the Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government (BBWR) party.
Biography[]
Adam Skwarczynski was born in Kalusz, Western Galicia, Austria-Hungary (present-day Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine) on 3 December 1886. He was raised in Lwow, and he joined Polish independence organizations as a teenager and became an ideological conservative. Skwarczynski joined the Union of Active Struggle (ZWC), and he joined the Polish legions of the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I. In May 1915, Jozef Pilsudski sent Skwarczynski to Russian-ruled Congress Poland to recruit Polish volunteers for the Polish Military Organisation, and he was arrested and held at the Modlin Fortress until 12 November 1918. After the war, he became a nationalist journalist and claimed that Poland had a peaceful mission to fulfill in Ukraine and Lithuania, and he also co-founded Jozef Pilsudski's BBWR party and supported his May Coup. He lost his legs to tuberculosis in 1929, but he remained active in politics until his death in 1934.