Konstanty Skirmunt
Appearance
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Konstanty Skirmunt (Russian: Константи́н Ге́нрихович Ски́рмунт) (30 August 1866[1] – 24 July 1949[2]) was a Polish politician.
During 1907—1914 he was a member of the State Council of the Russian Empire. He was a member of the Polish National Committee in Paris in 1917–1918, Polish ambassador in Rome in 1919–1921, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1921–22, and Polish ambassador in London in 1919–1934.[3]
Decorations
[edit]- 1923: Order of Polonia Restituta of the 1st class ( Wielka wstęga orderu Odrodzenia Polski)
- 1926: Grand Cross of the Order of the White Lion (Czechoslovakia)
- 1932: Gold Cross of Merit
- 1936: Royal Victorian Order of the 1st class (Great Britain)
References
[edit]- ^ Z bojów brygady Piłsudskiego (in Polish). Nakł. M. Baranowskiego. 1915.
- ^ "65 lat temu w Wałbrzychu zmarł Konstanty Skirmuntt, przedwojenny, wybitny polityk i dyplomata". 30 July 2014.
- ^ Carole Fink; Axel Frohn; Jürgen Heideking, eds. (2002). Genoa, Rapallo, and European Reconstruction in 1922. Papers of The German historical Institute. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521522809.
Categories:
- 1866 births
- 1949 deaths
- People from Ivanava District
- People from Brestsky Uyezd
- People from the Russian Empire of Polish descent
- 19th-century Polish nobility
- Clan of Dąb
- Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Second Polish Republic
- Members of the State Council (Russian Empire)
- Members of the Polish National Committee (1914–1917)
- Members of the Polish National Committee (1917–1919)
- Ambassadors of Poland to the United Kingdom
- Ambassadors of Poland to Italy
- Grand Crosses of the Order of the White Lion
- 20th-century Polish nobility
- Polish politician stubs