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Independent Poland 1918-2022<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ignacy Mo\u015bcicki achieved significant successes in several areas of activity. He was a committed activist, a political refugee, a talented chemist with numerous foreign patents, a factory administrator, a co-founder of a scientific institute and a mining company, an academic lecturer and rector of a university, and finally the President of the Republic of Poland. His successes would be enough to fill several biographies. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ignacy Mo\u015bcicki was born in Mierzan\u00f3w in 1867. Initially, he was associated with the socialist movement. After graduating from school in Warsaw, he studied chemistry at the Riga University of Technology. There he joined the Polish underground left-wing organization Proletariat. After graduating from school, he returned to Warsaw, but because of his independence activities, he was hunted by the tsarist secret police. He was threatened with life imprisonment and exile to Siberia, which forced Mo\u015bcicki to move in 1892. to London. In 1896. he was offered a position as an assistant at the University of Freiburg (Switzerland). It was there that he patented a method for the low-cost industrial production of nitric acid. In 1912, Mo\u015bcicki moved to Lviv in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, i.e. in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where he accepted a professorship of physical chemistry and technical electrochemistry at the Lviv Polytechnic. In 1925 he was elected rector of the Lviv University of Technology, but soon moved to Warsaw to continue his research at the Warsaw University of Technology.<\/p>\n

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Fig. National Digital Archives<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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After J\u00f3zef Pi\u0142sudski’s May coup in 1926. Mo\u015bcicki – Pi\u0142sudski’s former partner in the Polish Socialist Party – was elected president Polish, June 1, 1926<\/strong> (after Pi\u0142sudski resigned from office). After the death of the Marshal in 1935. Pi\u0142sudski’s supporters were divided into three main groups: those who supported Mo\u015bcicki as Pi\u0142sudski’s successor; those who supported General Edward Rydz-\u015amigly and those who were closest to Prime Minister Walery S\u0142awek.<\/p>\n

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Mo\u015bcicki remained President of the Republic of Poland until September 1939, when, at the outbreak of World War II, he was interned in Romania and forced to resign by the French government. While in exile, he handed over the office to W\u0142adys\u0142aw Raczkiewicz. In December 1939, with the consent of the Romanian authorities, Mo\u015bcicki moved to Switzerland, where he lived during World War II. He died at his home near Geneva on 2 October 1946.<\/p>\n

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The initiative with which he is associated today is the investment foundation in the Second Republic of Poland for the creation of a giant on the chemical market \u2013 Grupa Azoty. It was on the initiative of the President of the Republic of Poland, Ignacy Mo\u015bcicki, in 1927. The State Factory of Nitric Compounds was established in Tarn\u00f3w.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Fig. National Digital Archives<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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