List of Prime Ministers of Poland

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

L.p.	Portrait	Name	Entered office	Left office
1.		Stanisław Małachowski	5 October 1807	14 December 1807
2.		Ludwik Szymon Gutakowski	14 December 1807	November 1808
3.		Józef Poniatowski (acting)	November 1808	25 March 1809
4.		Stanisław Kostka Potocki	25 March 1809	May 1813

Presidents of the Polish National Government (1830-1831)

L.p.	Portrait	Name	Entered office	Left office
1.		Adam Jerzy Czartoryski	3 December 1830	15 August 1831
		Józef Chłopicki, dictator	5 December 1830	17 January 1831
2.		gen. Jan Stefan Krukowiecki	17 August 1831	7 September 1831
3.		Bonawentura Niemojowski	8 September 1831	23 September 1831
4.		Jan Nepomucen Umiński	23 September 1831	23 September 1831
5.		Maciej Rybiński	25 September 1831	9 October 1831

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

President of the National Committee in Poznań (1848)

L.p.	Portrait	Name	Entered office	Left office
1.		Gustaw Potworowski	20 March 1848	9 May 1848

Presidents of the National Government (1863–1864)

L.p.	Portrait	Name	Entered office	Left office
1.		Stefan Bobrowski	21 January 1863	17 February 1863
-		Ludwik Mierosławski, dictator	17 February 1863	11 March 1863
-		Marian Langiewicz, dictator	11 March 1863	18 March 1863
2.		Stefan Bobrowski	21 March 1863	12 April 1863
3.		Agaton Giller	12 April 1863	23 May 1863
4.		Franciszek Dobrowolski	23 May 1863	9 June 1863
5.		Piotr Kobylański	9 June 1863	10 June 1863
6.		Karol Majewski	14 June 1863	17 September 1863
7.		Franciszek Dobrowolski	17 September 1863	17 October 1863
8.		Romuald Traugutt, dictator	17 October 1863	10 April 1864
9.		Aleksander Waszkowski	12 April 1864	19 December 1864
10.		Bronisław Brzeziński	20 April 1864	October 1864

Prime Ministers of the Regency Kingdom of Poland (1917-1918)

L.p.	Portrait	Name	Entered office	Left office
1.		Jan Kucharzewski	26 November 1917	27 February 1918
2.		Antoni Ponikowski	27 February 1918	4 April 1918
3.		Jan Kanty Steczkowski	4 April 1918	23 October 1918
4.		Józef Świeżyński	23 October 1918	3 November 1918
5.		Władysław Wróblewski	3 November 1918	18 November 1918

Prime Ministers of the Interim People's Government (1918)

L.p.	Portrait	Name	Entered office	Left office
1.		Ignacy Daszyński in former Austrian Poland only (then failed a 4-day attempt to form a national government)	7 November 1918	14 / 18 November 1918

Prime Ministers of the Second Polish Republic (1918-1939)

L.p.	Portrait	Name	Entered office	Left office
1.		Jędrzej Moraczewski	18 November 1918	18 January 1919
2.		Ignacy Jan Paderewski	18 January 1919	13 November 1919
3.		Leopold Skulski	13 December 1919	27 June 1920
4.		Władysław Grabski	27 June 1920	24 July 1920
5.		Wincenty Witos	24 July 1920	19 September 1921
6.		Antoni Ponikowski	19 September 1921	28 June 1922
7.		Artur Śliwiński	28 June 1922	31 July 1922
8.		Julian Nowak	31 July 1922	16 December 1922
9.		Władysław Sikorski	16 December 1922	28 May 1923
10.		Wincenty Witos (2nd term)	28 May 1923	19 December 1923
11.		Władysław Grabski (2nd term)	19 December 1923	20 November 1925
12.		Aleksander Skrzyński	20 November 1925	10 May 1926
13.		Wincenty Witos (3rd term)	10 May 1926	14 May 1926
14.		Kazimierz Bartel	15 May 1926	2 October 1926
15.		Józef Piłsudski	2 October 1926	27 June 1928
16.		Kazimierz Bartel (2nd term)	27 June 1928	14 April 1929
17.		Kazimierz Świtalski	14 April 1929	29 December 1929
18.		Kazimierz Bartel (3rd term)	29 December 1929	29 March 1930
19.		Walery Sławek	29 March 1930	25 August 1930
20.		Józef Piłsudski (2nd term)	25 August 1930	4 December 1930
21.		Walery Sławek (2nd term)	4 December 1930	27 May 1931
22.		Aleksander Prystor	27 May 1931	10 May 1933
23.		Janusz Jędrzejewicz	10 May 1933	15 May 1934
24.		Leon Kozłowski	15 May 1934	28 March 1935
25.		Walery Sławek (3rd term)	28 March 1935	13 October 1935
26.		Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski	13 October 1935	15 May 1936
27.		Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski	15 May 1936	30 September 1939

Prime Ministers of Polish Government in Exile (1939-1945)

L.p.	Portrait	Name	Entered office	Left office
1.		Władysław Sikorski (2nd term)	30 September 1939	4 July 1943
2.		Stanisław Mikołajczyk	14 July 1943	24 November 1944
3.		Tomasz Arciszewski	29 November 1944	5 July 1945 (lost recognition by any member of the United Nations)

Prime Ministers of the People's Republic of Poland (1944-1990)

Lp.	Portrait	Name	Entered office	Left office
1.		Edward Osóbka-Morawski	31 December 1944	6 February 1947
2.		Józef Cyrankiewicz	6 February 1947	20 November 1952
3.		Bolesław Bierut	20 November 1952	18 March 1954
4.		Józef Cyrankiewicz	18 March 1954	23 December 1970
5.		Piotr Jaroszewicz	23 December 1970	18 February 1980
6.		Edward Babiuch	18 February 1980	24 August 1980
7.		Józef Pińkowski	24 August 1980	11 February 1981
8.		Wojciech Jaruzelski	11 February 1981	6 November 1985
9.		Zbigniew Messner	6 November 1985	27 September 1988
10.		Mieczysław Rakowski	27 September 1988	2 August 1989
11.		Czesław Kiszczak failed confidence	2 August 1989	24 August 1989
12.		Tadeusz Mazowiecki during democratic transition	24 August 1989	4 January 1991

Prime Ministers of the Third Republic of Poland (actual)

Lp.	Portrait	Name	Designated	Entered office	Voted of confidence	Dismissed or voted of no-confidence	Left office	Political party
1.		Tadeusz Mazowiecki	20 August 1989	24 August 1989	12 September 1989	14 December 1990	4 January 1991	Democratic Union
2.		Jan Krzysztof Bielecki	4 January 1991	4 January 1991	12 January 1991	5 December 1991	6 December 1991	Liberal Democratic Congress
3.		Jan Olszewski	6 December 1991	6 December 1991	23 December 1991	5 June 1992	5 June 1992	Centre Agreement
4.		Waldemar Pawlak	5 June 1992	5 June 1992	rejected	7 July 1992	11 July 1992	Polish Peasants Party
5.		Hanna Suchocka	10 July 1992	11 July 1992	11 July 1992	28 May 1993	26 October 1993	Democratic Union
6.		Waldemar Pawlak (2nd term)	18 October 1993	26 October 1993	10 November 1993	1 March 1995	7 March 1995	Polish Peasants Party
7.		Józef Oleksy	1 March 1995	7 March 1995	4 March 1995	26 January 1996	7 February 1996	Democratic Left Alliance
8.		Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz	7 February 1996	7 February 1996	15 February 1996	17 October 1997	31 October 1997	Democratic Left Alliance
9.		Jerzy Buzek	17 October 1997	31 October 1997	11 November 1997	19 October 2001	19 October 2001	Solidarity Electoral Action
10.		Leszek Miller	4 October 2001	19 October 2001	26 October 2001	2 May 2004	2 May 2004	Democratic Left Alliance
11.		Marek Belka	29 March 2004 11 June 2004	2 May 2004	24 June 2004	14 May 2004 19 October 2005	31 October 2005	Democratic Left Alliance
12.		Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz	19 October 2005	31 October 2005	10 November 2005	10 July 2006	14 July 2006	Law and Justice
13.		Jarosław Kaczyński	10 July 2006	14 July 2006	19 July 2006	5 November 2007	16 November 2007	Law and Justice
14.		Donald Tusk	9 November 2007	16 November 2007	24 November 2007	—	—	Civic Platform

See also

• Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
• President of the Republic of Poland
• List of Polish rulers

External links

• The Chancellery of the Prime Minister