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5 unusual facts about Władysław Grabski


Borów, Łowicz County

The manor of the Grabski family, where the politicians of the Second Polish Republic Władysław Grabski, Stanisław Grabski and Zofia Kirkor-Kiedroniowa were born, is located there.

Władysław Grabski

Grabski’s (and the ministerial cabinet’s) great achievement in those years was the foundation of the Bank of Poland and the creation of the new Polish currency – the gold-based złoty which replaced the Polish mark.

The Bank of Poland was faced with both a commercial deficit and an increasing national debt.

He became an outward looking visionary, a man who would be responsible for creating the Bank of Poland and implementing the Polish currency.

Władysław Grabski was born in 1874, in a family manor in Borów (a part of Gmina Bielawy) near Łowicz, Congress Poland, Russian Empire.


Józef Kiedroń

On 1 August 1905 he married Zofia Kirkor-Kiedroniowa, Polish activist and sister of noted politicians Stanisław and Władysław Grabski.

Kazimierz Tyszka

Kazimierz Tyszka (1872 Kalisz, Poland – 1952 London, UK) was the Polish Minister of Railways from 1923-25 under Władysław Grabski's government.


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