Tytus Filipowicz

Tytus Filipowicz
Filipowicz before 1921
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office November 16, 1918 – November 17, 1918
Preceded by	Władysław Wróblewski
Succeeded by	Leon Wasilewski
Polish Chargé d'Affaires to RFSFR
In office July 1, 1921 – October 22, 1921
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Zygmunt Stefanski
Polish ambassador to Finland
In office October 27, 1922 – September 6, 1927
Preceded by	Michał Sokolnicki
Succeeded by	Tomasz Sariusz-Bielski
Polish ambassador to Belgium
In office September 6, 1927 – February 1, 1929
Preceded by	Anatol Mühlstein
Succeeded by	Tomasz Sariusz-Bielski
Polish ambassador to the U.S.
In office March 1, 1929 – December 17. 1932
Preceded by	Jan Ciechanowski
Succeeded by	Władysław Sokołowski
Personal details
Born	(1873-11-21)November 21, 1873 Warsaw, Congress Poland
Died	June 13, 1953(1953-06-13) (aged 79) London, United Kingdom

Tytus Filipowicz (1873–1953) was a Polish politician and diplomat.

Life

Filipowicz was born on 21 November 1873 in Warsaw. He attended school in Dąbrowa Górnicza. He worked as a coal miner and became a socialist political activist; from 1895 he was active in the Dąbrowa Workers' Committee. He became an active member of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS) and editor of a socialist paper for miners (Górnik, Miner). In 1901 he was arrested by the authorities but escaped to Russian-ruled Warsaw.

During the PPS split, he sided with the Polish Socialist Party – Revolutionary Faction and became a close collaborator of future Polish statesman Józef Piłsudski. He accompanied Piłsudski on his 1904 voyage to Japan. In 1905 Filipowicz was imprisoned by the Russian Empire in the Warsaw Citadel, but escaped.

Under the Second Polish Republic, he was briefly deputy or acting (sources vary) Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (11–17 November 1918). Later he was named Poland's ambassador to Georgia—due to his involvement in Piłsudski's Prometheist project—but in the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Georgia (which was subsequently annexed as the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic) he did not assume this post but was instead arrested there by the Soviets and interned. After the treaty of Riga ended the Polish-Soviet War in 1921, he became the first Polish chargé d'affaires in the Soviet Union, organizing the Polish embassy there. Later he was a diplomat in Finland, Belgium and the United States (1929-32).

In 1934, with Gabriel Czechowicz, Filipowicz co-founded the Polish Radical Party (Polska Partia Radykalna), a dissident offshoot of Sanation that, while largely adhering to political liberalism, advocated that Poland become a Christian state, with official preferences given to ethnic Poles, and Jews being encouraged to emigrate.

During and after World War II, Filipowicz was a member of the Polish Government in Exile and of the National Council of the Republic of Poland (1941–42 and 1949–53).

He died on 18 August 1953 in London.

See also

• Prometheism
• List of Poles