List of prime ministers of Poland explained

This is a list of the prime ministers of Poland. The Prime Minister of Poland is both the leader of the cabinet and the head of government of Poland.

Great Chancellors of Poland (1107–1795)

width=1%	Portrait	width=25%	Name	width=8%	Lifespan	width=10%	Term began	width=10%	Term ended
	Jan	?	1107	1112
	Michał Awdaniec	?	1112	1113
	Goswin	?	1113	1138
	Lupus	?	1138	1145
	Pean	died in 1152	1145	1152
	Cherubin	died in 1180	1152	1172
	Klemens	?	1172	1173
	Stefan	?	1173	1206
	Iwo Odrowąż	died 21 August 1229	1206	1208
	Wincenty z Niałka	died in 1232	1208	1211
	Jarost	?	1211	1212
	Marcin	?	1212	1213
	Nanker	died in 1250	1213	1241
	Wawrzęta Gutowski	?	1241	1243
	Rambold	?	1243	1262
	Paweł z Przemankowa	died 29 November 1292	1262	1266
	Stanisław z Krakowa	?	1266	1270
	Prokop	died in 1295	1270	1280
	Andrzej Zaremba	died in 1318	1280	1290
	Wincenty	?	1290	1296
	Jan	died 26 August 1296	1296	1296
	Piotr Angeli	?	1296	1306
	Franciszek z Krakowa	?	1306	1320
	Zbigniew z Szczyrzyca	?	1320	1356
	Janusz Suchywilk	1310 – 5 April 1382	1357	1373
	Zawisza Kurozwęcki	died 12 January 1382	1373	1379
	Jan Radlica	died 12 January 1392	1380	1386
	Mikołaj Zaklika	died in 1408	1386	1404
	Mikołaj Kurowski	1355–1411	1404	1411
	Wojciech Jastrzębiec	1362–1436	1411	1423
	Jan Szafraniec	1363 – 28 July 1433	1423	1433
	Jan Taszka Koniecpolski	died 26 March 1455	1433 or 1434	1454
	Jan Gruszczyński	1405 – 8 October 1473	1454	1469
	Jakub Dembiński	1427 – 15 January 1490	1469	1473
	Uriel Górka	1435 – 21 January 1498	1473	1479
	Stanisław Kurozwęcki	1440–1482	1479	1482
	Krzesław Kurozwęcki	1440–1503	1483	1503
	Jan Łaski	1456 – 19 May 1531	1503	1510
	Maciej Drzewicki	22 February 1467 – 22 August 1535	1510	1513
	Krzysztof Szydłowiecki	1467–1532	1513 or 1515	1532
	Jan Chojeński	17 March 1486 – 11 March 1538	1532	1538
	Paweł Dunin-Wolski	1487–1546	1539	1540
	Tomasz Sobocki	1508–1547	1540	1541
	Samuel Maciejowski	15 January 1499 – 26 October 1550	1541	1550
	Jan Ocieski	1501 – 12 May 1563	1550 or 1552	1563
	Walenty Dembiński	died in 1585	1564	1576
	Piotr Dunin-Wolski	1531 – 1590	1576	1578
	Jan Zamoyski	19 March 1542 – 3 June 1605	1578	1605
	Maciej Pstrokoński	1553 – 1609	1606	1609
	Wawrzyniec Gembicki	5 August 1559 – 10 February 1624	1609	1613
	Feliks Kryski	1562–1618	1613	1618
	Stanisław Żółkiewski	1547 – 7 October 1620	1618	1620
	Andrzej Lipski	1572 – 4 September 1631	1620	1623
	Wacław Leszczyński	1576 – 17 May 1628	1625	1628
	Jakub Zadzik	1582 – 17 March 1642	1628	1635
	Tomasz Zamoyski	1594–7 January 1638	1635	1635
	Piotr Gembicki	10 October 1585 – 14 July 1657	1635	1643
	Jerzy Ossoliński	15 December 1595 – 9 August 1650	1643	1650
	Andrzej Leszczyński	1608–1658	1650	1652
	Stefan Koryciński	1617 – 4 July 1658	1652	1658
	Mikołaj Prażmowski	1617 – 15 April 1673	1658	1666
	Jan Leszczyński	1603–1678	1666	1678
	Jan Stefan Wydżga	1610 – 6 September 1685	1678	1678
	Jan Wielopolski	1630 – 15 February 1688	1678	1688
	Jerzy Albrecht Denhoff	1640 – 1702	1688	1702
	Karol Tarło	1639 – 1702	1702	1702
	Andrzej Chryzostom Załuski	1650 – 12 May 1711	1702	1706
	Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski	1669 – 28 April 1731	1706	1709
	Jan Szembek	1672 – 9 April 1731	1712	1731
	Andrzej Stanisław Załuski	2 December 1695 – 16 December 1758	1735	1746
	Jan Małachowski	26 January 1698 – 25 June 1762	1746	1762
	Andrzej Zamoyski	12 February 1716 – 10 February 1792	1764	1767
	Andrzej Młodziejowski	1717–1780	1767	1780
	Jan Andrzej Borch	1715–1780	1780	1780
	Antoni Onufry Okęcki	13 June 1729 – 15 June 1793	1780	1786
	Jacek Małachowski	25 August 1737 – 27 March 1821	1786	1793
	Antoni Sułkowski	11 June 1735 – 16 April 1796	1793	1795

Prime Ministers of the Duchy of Warsaw (1807–1813)

See main article: Duchy of Warsaw.

Portrait		width=220px	Name (Birth–Death)	width=120px	Entered office	width=120px	Left office	width=150px	Monarch (Reign)
1		Stanisław Małachowski (1736–1809)	5 October 1807	14 December 1807
2		Ludwik Szymon Gutakowski (1738-1811)	14 December 1807	November 1808
3		Józef Poniatowski (1763–1813) Acting Prime Minister	November 1808	25 March 1809
4		Stanisław Kostka Potocki (1755–1821)	25 March 1809	May 1813

Presidents of the Polish National Government (1830–1831)

See main article: Polish National Government (November Uprising).

Portrait		width=220px	Name (Birth–Death)	width=120px	Entered office	width=120px	Left office
1		Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770–1861)	3 December 1830	15 August 1831
–		Józef Chłopicki (1771–1854) (dictator)	5 December 1830	17 January 1831
2		General Jan Stefan Krukowiecki (1772–1850)	17 August 1831	7 September 1831
3		Bonawentura Niemojowski (1787–1835)	8 September 1831	23 September 1831
4		Jan Nepomucen Umiński (1778–1851)	23 September 1831	23 September 1831
5		Maciej Rybiński (1784–1874)	25 September 1831	9 October 1831

Presidents of the National Government of the Republic of Poland (1846)

Portrait		width=220px	Name (Birth–Death)	width=120px	Entered office	width=120px	Left office
–	Tyssowski	National Government of the Republic of Poland (triumvirate):Jan Tyssowski (President) (1811–1857) Ludwik Gorzkowski (1811–1857) Aleksander Grzegorzewski (1806–1855)	22 February 1846	24 February 1846
–		Jan Tyssowski (1811–1857) (dictator)	24 February 1846	3 March 1846

President of the National Committee in Poznań (1848)

Portrait		width=220px	Name (Birth–Death)	width=120px	Entered office	width=120px	Left office
1		Gustaw Potworowski (1800–1860)	20 March 1848	9 May 1848

Presidents of the Polish National Government (1863–1864)

See main article: Polish National Government (January Uprising).

Portrait		width=220px	Name (Birth–Death)	width=120px	Entered office	width=120px	Left office
1		Stefan Bobrowski (1840–1863)	21 January 1863	17 February 1863
–		Ludwik Mierosławski (1814–1878) (dictator)	17 February 1863	11 March 1863
–		Marian Langiewicz (1827–1887) (dictator)	11 March 1863	18 March 1863
2		Stefan Bobrowski (1840–1863)	21 March 1863	12 April 1863
3		Agaton Giller (1831–1887)	12 April 1863	23 May 1863
4		Franciszek Dobrowolski (1830–1896)	23 May 1863	9 June 1863
5		Piotr Kobylański (1823–1868)	9 June 1863	10 June 1863
6		Karol Majewski (1833–1897)	14 June 1863	17 September 1863
7		Franciszek Dobrowolski (1830–1896)	17 September 1863	17 October 1863
8		Romuald Traugutt (1826–1864) (dictator.)	17 October 1863	10 April 1864
–		Aleksander Waszkowski (1841–1865)	12 April 1864	19 December 1864
9		Bronisław Brzeziński (1837–1865)	20 April 1864	October 1864

Prime Ministers of the Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918)

See main article: Kingdom of Poland (1916–18). Colour key (for political parties):

Portrait			width=25%	Name (Birth–Death)	width=17%	Entered office	width=17%	Left office	width=20%	Political party	width=20%	Cabinet
1			Jan Kucharzewski (1876–1952)	26 November 1917	27 February 1918	Independent	Kucharzewski
–			Antoni Ponikowski (1878–1949)	27 February 1918	4 April 1918	National-Democratic Party	Ponikowski (provisional)
2			Jan Kanty Steczkowski (1862–1929)	4 April 1918	23 October 1918	Party of the National Right	Steczkowski
3			Józef Świeżyński (1868–1948)	23 October 1918	3 November 1918	National-Democratic Party	Świeżyński
–			Władysław Wróblewski (1875–1951)	3 November 1918	14 November 1918	Independent	Wróblewski (provisional)

Prime Ministers of the People's Republic (1918)

Colour key (for political parties):

Portrait			width=25%	Name (Birth–Death)	width=17%	Entered office	width=17%	Left office	width=20%	Political party	width=20%	Cabinet
1			Ignacy Daszyński (1866–1936)	7 November 1918	14 November 1918	Polish Socialist Party	Provisional People's Government of the Republic of Poland

Note: Until 11 November, Daszyński was Prime Minister in the Polish People's Republic, based at Lublin, in the territory occupied by Austrian troops. On 11 November, he was invited to form a national government but failed and resigned three days later.

Prime Ministers of the Republic of Poland (1918–1939)

See main article: Second Polish Republic. Colour key (for political parties):

Portrait		Name	Tenure			Ministerial offices held as prime minister	Party	Government
			Took office	Left office	Duration
		Jędrzej Moraczewski (1870–1944)	17 November 1918	16 January 1919		Minister of Communication		Polish Socialist Party	Moraczewski
		Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941)	16 January 1919	9 November 1919		Minister of Foreign Affairs	Independent	Paderewski
		Leopold Skulski (1878–1940)	13 November 1919	9 June 1920				Polish People's Party "Piast"	Skulski
		Władysław Grabski (1874–1938)	23 June 1920	24 July 1920		Minister of the Treasury	Popular National Union	Grabski I
		Wincenty Witos (1874–1945)	24 July 1920	5 September 1921				Polish People's Party "Piast"	Rząd Obrony Narodowej (Witos I)
		Antoni Ponikowski (1878–1949)	19 September 1921	10 March 1922		Minister of Culture and Art Minister of Public Enlightenment	Polish Christian Democratic Party	Ponikowski I
5 March 1922			6 June 1922			Ponikowski II
		Artur Śliwiński (1877–1953)	28 June 1922	7 July 1922			Independent	Śliwiński
		Julian Nowak (1865–1946)	31 July 1922	14 December 1922				Party of the National Right	Nowak
		Władysław Sikorski (1881–1943)	16 December 1922	26 May 1923			Independent	Sikorski I
		Wincenty Witos (1874–1945)	28 May 1923	14 December 1923				Polish People's Party "Piast"	Witos II
		Władysław Grabski (1874–1938)	19 December 1923	14 November 1925			Popular National Union Christian Union of National Unity	Grabski II
		Aleksander Skrzyński (1882–1931)	20 November 1925	5 May 1926				Party of the National Right	Skrzyński
		Wincenty Witos (1874–1945)	10 May 1926	14 May 1926				Polish People's Party "Piast"	Witos III
		Kazimierz Bartel (1882–1941)	15 May 1926	4 June 1926			Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government	Bartel I
8 June 1926			24 September 1926	Minister of Iron Railways		Bartel II
27 September 1926			30 September 1926			Bartel III
		Józef Piłsudski (1867–1935)	2 October 1926	27 June 1928		Minister of Military Affairs	Independent	Piłsudski I
		Kazimierz Bartel (1882–1941)	28 June 1928	13 April 1929			Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government	Bartel IV
		Kazimierz Świtalski (1886–1962)	14 April 1929	7 December 1929			Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government	Świtalski
		Kazimierz Bartel (1882–1941)	29 December 1929	15 March 1930			Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government	Bartel V
		Walery Sławek (1879–1939)	29 March 1930	23 August 1930			Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government	Sławek I
		Józef Piłsudski (1867–1935)	25 August 1930	4 December 1930			Independent	Piłsudski II
		Walery Sławek (1879–1939)	5 December 1930	26 May 1931			Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government	Sławek II
		Aleksander Prystor (1874–1941)	28 May 1931	10 May 1933			Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government	Prystor
		Janusz Jędrzejewicz (1885–1951)	10 May 1933	16 May 1934		Minister of Public Enlightenment	Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government	Jędrzejewicz
		Leon Kozłowski (1892–1944)	16 May 1934	28 March 1935			Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government	Kozłowski
		Walery Sławek (1879–1939)	28 March 1935	14 October 1935			Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government	Sławek III
		Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski (1892–1946)	13 October 1935	16 May 1936			Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government	Zyndram-Kościałkowski
		Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski (1885–1962)	16 May 1936	30 September 1939		Minister of Internal Affairs	Camp of National Unity	Składkowski

Prime Ministers of the Government of the Republic of Poland in Exile (1939–1990)

See main article: Polish government-in-exile. After the German conquest of Poland, a Polish government-in-exile was formed under the protection of France and Britain. The government was recognised by the United Kingdom and the United States until 5 July 1945, when the Western Allies accepted Joseph Stalin's communist government. By the end of 1946, the government-in-exile had lost recognition by all but a handful of independent nations. Despite this, it continued in London until the election of Lech Wałęsa as President of the Republic of Poland in December 1990.

	Portrait	Name	Term of office			Political party	Cabinet
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Władysław Sikorski	30 September 1939	19 July 1940		bgcolor=		Independent	Sikorski II
2		August Zaleski	19 July 1940	25 July 1940		bgcolor=		Independent
1		Władysław Sikorski	25 July 1940	4 July 1943 †		bgcolor=		Independent	Sikorski III	^[1]
3		Stanisław Mikołajczyk	14 July 1943	24 November 1944		bgcolor=		Polish People's Party	Mikołajczyk
4		Tomasz Arciszewski	29 November 1944	25 July 1945		bgcolor=		Polish Socialist Party	Arciszewski

Prime Ministers of the Government-in-Exile (with little or no international recognition, 1945–1990)

	Portrait	Name	Term of office			Political party	Cabinet
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
4		Tomasz Arciszewski	25 July 1945	2 July 1947		bgcolor=		Polish Socialist Party	Arciszewski
5		Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski	2 July 1947	10 February 1949		bgcolor=		Independent	Bór-Komorowski
6		Tadeusz Tomaszewski	7 April 1949	25 September 1950		bgcolor=		Independent	Tomaszewski
7		Roman Odzierzyński	25 December 1950	8 December 1953		bgcolor=		Independent	Odzierzyński
8		Jerzy Hryniewski	18 January 1954	13 May 1954		bgcolor=red			Hryniewski
9		Stanisław Mackiewicz	8 June 1954	21 June 1955		bgcolor=		Independent	Mackiewicz
10		Hugon Hanke	8 August 1955	10 September 1955		bgcolor=		Labour Faction	Hanke
11		Antoni Pająk	10 September 1955	14 June 1965		bgcolor=		Polish Socialist Party	Pająk I–II
12		Aleksander Zawisza	25 June 1965	9 June 1970		bgcolor=		Independent	Zawisza I–II–III
13		Zygmunt Muchniewski	20 July 1970	13 July 1972		bgcolor=		Labour Faction	Muchniewski
14		Alfred Urbański	18 July 1972	15 July 1976		bgcolor=		Polish Socialist Party	Urbański I–II
15		Kazimierz Sabbat	5 August 1976	8 April 1986		bgcolor=		Independent	Sabbat I–II–III–IV
16		Edward Szczepanik	8 April 1986	22 December 1990		bgcolor=		Independent	Szczepanik I–II

Chairmen of the Executive for National Unity (1954–1972)

In 1954, one group within the government-in-exile opposed the continuation of August Zaleski as President of the government-in-exile beyond the end of his seven-year term. They established the Council of National Unity, vested the powers of the President in the Rada Trzech (three-man council), and appointed their own government, the Executive for National Unity. After the death of Zaleski in 1972, the Council of National Unity dissolved and ceded its powers to Zaleski's successor Stanisław Ostrowski.

• Roman Odzierzyński (1954–1955)
• Adam Ciołkosz (1956–1959)
• Witold Czerwiński (1959–1963)
• Adam Ciołkosz (1963 – December 1966)
• Jan Starzewski (December 1966 – 1967)
• Kazimierz Sabbat (1967 – 8 July 1972)

Prime Ministers of the Polish People's Republic (1944–1989)

See main article: Polish People's Republic. Colour key (for political parties):

Portrait			width=25%	Name (Birth–Death)	width=17%	Entered office	width=17%	Left office	width=20%	Political party	width=20%	Cabinet
1			Edward Osóbka-Morawski (1909–1997)	22 July 1944	31 December 1944	Polish Socialist Party	Polish Committee of National Liberation
	31 December 1944			28 June 1945	Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland
	28 June 1945			6 February 1947	Provisional Government of National Unity
2			Józef Cyrankiewicz (1911–1989)	6 February 1947	20 November 1952	Polish Socialist Party	Cyrankiewicz I
						Polish United Workers' Party (from December 1948)
3			Bolesław Bierut (1892–1956)	20 November 1952	18 March 1954	Polish United Workers' Party	Bierut
(2)			Józef Cyrankiewicz (1911–1989)	18 March 1954	15 May 1961	Polish United Workers' Party	Cyrankiewicz II
	18 May 1961			24 June 1965	Cyrankiewicz III
	25 June 1965			27 June 1969	Cyrankiewicz IV
	28 June 1969			23 December 1970	Cyrankiewicz V
4			Piotr Jaroszewicz (1909–1992)	23 December 1970	28 March 1972	Polish United Workers' Party	(Cyrankiewicz V)
	28 March 1972			25 March 1976	Jaroszewicz I
	27 March 1976			18 February 1980	Jaroszewicz II
5			Edward Babiuch (1927–2021)	18 February 1980	24 August 1980	Polish United Workers' Party	Babiuch
6			Józef Pińkowski (1929–2000)	24 August 1980	11 February 1981	Polish United Workers' Party	Pińkowski
7			Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923–2014)	11 February 1981	6 November 1985	Polish United Workers' Party	Jaruzelski
8			Zbigniew Messner (1929–2014)	6 November 1985	27 September 1988	Polish United Workers' Party	Messner
9			Mieczysław Rakowski (1926–2008)	27 September 1988	2 August 1989	Polish United Workers' Party	Rakowski
10			Czesław Kiszczak (1925–2015) (lost vote of confidence)	2 August 1989	24 August 1989	Polish United Workers' Party	Kiszczak
11			Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927–2013) (during democratic transition)	24 August 1989	31 December 1989 (People's Republic abolished.)	Solidarity Citizens' Committee	Mazowiecki

Prime Ministers of the Republic of Poland (1989–present)

See main article: Poland.

Political parties

Christian Democrats

Conservatives

Liberals

Social Democrats

Portrait		Name Sejm District	Tenure			Ministerial offices held as prime minister	Party	Government	Sejm	President
			Took office	Left office	Duration
		Tadeusz Mazowiecki	24 August 1989	4 January 1991		–		Solidarity Citizens' Committee	Mazowiecki	Contract	1	Wojciech Jaruzelski
							Democratic Union
2							Lech Wałęsa
		Jan Krzysztof Bielecki	4 January 1991	6 December 1991		–		Liberal Democratic Congress			Bielecki
		Jan Olszewski	6 December 1991	5 June 1992		–		Centre Agreement		Olszewski	I
		Waldemar Pawlak	5 June 1992	11 July 1992		–		Polish People's Party		Pawlak I
		Hanna Suchocka	11 July 1992	26 October 1993		–		Democratic Union		Suchocka (
		Waldemar Pawlak	26 October 1993	7 March 1995		–		Polish People's Party		Pawlak II	II
		Józef Oleksy	7 March 1995	7 February 1996		–	Social Democracy	Oleksy
3							Aleksander Kwaśniewski
	Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz	7 February 1996	31 October 1997				Cimoszewicz
		Jerzy Buzek	31 October 1997	19 October 2001			Solidarity Electoral Action		Buzek	III
		Leszek Miller	19 October 2001	2 May 2004			Democratic Left Alliance		Miller	IV
	Marek Belka	2 May 2004	11 June 2004				Belka I
		11 June 2004	31 October 2005			Belka II
		Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz	31 October 2005	14 July 2006			Law and Justice	Marcinkiewicz	V
4						Lech Kaczyński
	Jarosław Kaczyński	14 July 2006	16 November 2007		–		Kaczyński
		Donald Tusk					Civic Platform	Tusk I	VI
5						Bronisław Komorowski
18 November 2011						Tusk II	VII
	Ewa Kopacz				–	Kopacz (
						6		Andrzej Duda
		Beata Szydło	16 November 2015	11 December 2017		–	Law and Justice		Szydło	VIII
	Mateusz Morawiecki	11 December 2017	15 November 2019				Morawiecki I
		15 November 2019	27 November 2023			Morawiecki II	IX
		27 November 2023	13 December 2023			Morawiecki III	X
		Donald Tusk		Incumbent		–			Civic Platform		Tusk III (

Invited to form a government by the President, but failed to form a government and resigned

See also

• List of heads of state of Poland
• List of Polish monarchs
• President of Poland

External links

• The Chancellery of the Prime Minister

Notes and References

1. Roman Wapiński, Władysław Sikorski, Polski Słownik Biograficzny, zeszyt 154 (T. XXXVII/3), 1997, p. 474