Aleksander Prystor (2 January 1874-1941) was Prime Minister of the Second Polish Republic from 27 May 1931 to 9 May 1933, succeeding Walery Slawek and preceding Janusz Jedrzejewicz.
Biography[]
Aleksander Prystor was born in Vilna, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania) on 2 January 1874. He worked at a bank in Vilna and served in the Imperial Russian Army, and he also joined the Polish Socialist Party and became a close associate of Jozef Pilsudski. Prystor joined the Union of Active Struggle during World War I, and, after Polish independence, Prystor served as Labor Minister of the Second Polish Republic from 1918 to 1919, in the Polish Army during the Polish-Soviet War, and became Pilsudski's closest advisor. Prystor served in the Sejm from 1931 to 1935 as a BBWR deputy, and he criticized the Camp of National Unity regime which rose to power following Pilsudski's death. He fled to Lithuania following the Invasion of Poland in 1939, but he was arrested by the NKVD after the Soviet annexation of the Baltics in June 1940, and he died of dysentery in Moscow's Lubyanka Prison in 1941.