Ministry of Interior and Administration (Poland)

Ministry of the Interior and Administration (Polish: Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych i Administracji) is an administration structure controlling main administration and security branches of the Polish government. After Parliamentary Election on 9 October 2011 was transformed for two ministries: Ministry of Interior (Minister: Jacek Cichocki) and Ministry of Administration and Digitization (Minister: Michał Boni). It was recreated in late 2015.

Ministry of the Interior and Administration of The Republic of Poland
Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych i Administracji
Official governmental wall plaque
Ministerial logotype

The seat of the ministry on Stefan Batory Street, Warsaw
Agency overview
Headquartersul. Stefana Batorego 5, Warsaw
52°12′40″N 21°01′00″E
Agency executive
Parent agencyCouncil of Ministers
Websitewww.mswia.gov.pl

History and function

The ministry was founded in 1918 as the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych). During a reform of the Polish government in 1996 the administration branch was merged into the Ministry and it was renamed to its current name (on 24 December).

That was one of the most important governmental cabinet positions in Poland,[1] The ministry was responsible for the following:

While the ministry of the Interior supervises police forces, it does not supervise criminal enquiries; criminal enquiries are conducted under the supervision of the judiciary.

The Ministry's headquarters was located on the Stefan Batory Street, south of Warsaw's city centre and the governmental district which surrounds the Belweder. The Ministry could be referred to by its initials 'MSWiA'.

The last Minister of the Interior and Administration before it was split in 2011 was Jerzy Miller.

List of ministers

Ministers of Internal Affairs of the Second Republic of Poland (1918 - 1939)
Portrait Name party Term Of Office Prime Minister (Cabinet)
Stanisław Thugutt Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie" 17 November 1918 16 January 1919 Jędrzej Moraczewski (Moraczewski)
Stanisław Wojciechowski Independent 16 January 1919 9 June 1920 Ignacy Jan Paderewski (Paderewski)

Leopold Skulski (Skulski)

Józef Kuczyński

(acting)

Independent 23 June 1920 24 July 1920 Władysław Grabski (Grabski I)
Leopold Skulski National People's Union 24 July 1920 28 June 1921 Wincenty Witos (Witos I)
Władysław Raczkiewicz Independent 28 June 1921 13 September 1921 Wincenty Witos (Witos I)
Stanisław Downarowicz Independent 19 September 1921 5 March 1922 Antoni Ponikowski (Ponikowski I)
Antoni Kamieński Independent 10 March 1922 11 December 1922 Antoni Ponikowski (Ponikowski II)

Artur Śliwiński (Śliwiński) Julian Nowak (Nowak)

Ludwik Darowski

(acting)

 Independent 11 December 1922 14 December 1922 Julian Nowak ((Nowak)
Władysław Sikorski Independent 16 December 1922 26 May 1923 Władysław Sikorski (Sikorski I)
Władysław Kiernik Polish People's Party "Piast" 28 May 1923 14 December 1923 Wincenty Witos (Witos II)
Władysław Sołtan Independent 19 December 1923 21 March 1924 Władysław Grabski (Grabski II)
Zygmunt Hübner Independent 21 March 1924 17 November 1924 Władysław Grabski (Grabski II)
Cyryl Ratajski Independent 17 November 1924 14 June 1925 Władysław Grabski (Grabski II)
Władysław Raczkiewicz Independent 14 June 1925 5 May 1926 Władysław Grabski (Grabski II)

Aleksander Skrzyński (Skrzyński)

Stefan Smólski Polish Christian Democratic Party 10 May 1926 15 May 1926 Wincenty Witos (Witos III)
Kazimierz Młodzianowski Independent 15 May 1926 30 September 1926 Kazimierz Bartel (Bartel I)

(Bartel II) (Bartel III)

Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski Independent 2 October 1926 7 December 1929 Józef Piłsudski (Piłsudski I)

Kazimierz Bartel (Bartel IV) Kazimierz Świtalski (Świtalski)

Henryk Józewski Independent 9 December 1929 3 June 1930 Kazimierz Bartel (Bartel V)

Walery Sławek (Sławek I)

Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski Independent 3 June 1930 22 June 1931 Walery Sławek (Sławek I)

Józef Piłsudski (Piłsudski II) Walery Sławek (Sławek II) Aleksander Prystor (Prystor)

Bronisław Pieracki Independent 23 June 1931 15 June 1934 Aleksander Prystor (Prystor)

Janusz Jędrzejewicz (Jędrzejewicz) Leon Kozłowski (Kozłowski)

Leon Kozłowski Independent 16 June 1934 28 June 1934 Leon Kozłowski (Kozłowski)
Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski Independent 28 June 1934 12 October 1935 Walery Sławek (Sławek III)
Władysław Raczkiewicz Independent 13 October 1935 15 May 1936 Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski (Zyndram-Kościałkowski)
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski Independent 16 May 1936 30 September 1939 Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski (Składkowski)
Ministers of Public Security (1944 - 1954)
Stanisław Radkiewicz Polish Workers' Party 31 December 1944 7 December 1954 Polish Committee of National Liberation,

Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland, Provisional Government of National Unity, Józef Cyrankiewicz (Cyrankiewicz I) Bolesław Bierut (Bierut) Józef Cyrankiewicz (Cyrankiewicz II)

Ministers of Internal Affairs of People's Republic of Poland (1954 - 1990)
Władysław Wicha Polish United Workers' Party 7 December 1954 12 December 1964 Józef Cyrankiewicz (Cyrankiewicz II)

(Cyrankiewicz III)

Mieczysław Moczar Polish United Workers' Party 12 December 1964 15 July 1968 Józef Cyrankiewicz (Cyrankiewicz III)

(Cyrankiewicz IV)

Kazimierz Świtała Polish United Workers' Party 15 July 1968 13 February 1971 Józef Cyrankiewicz (Cyrankiewicz IV) , (Cyrankiewicz V)

Piotr Jaroszewicz (Jaroszewicz I)

Franciszek Szlachcic Polish United Workers' Party 13 February 1971 22 December 1971 Józef Cyrankiewicz(Cyrankiewicz V)

Piotr Jaroszewicz (Jaroszewicz I)

Wiesław Ociepka Polish United Workers' Party 22 December 1971 28 February 1973 Piotr Jaroszewicz (Jaroszewicz I) , (Jaroszewicz II)
Stanisław Kowalczyk Polish United Workers' Party 22 March 1973 8 October 1980 Piotr Jaroszewicz (Jaroszewicz II)Edward Babiuch (Babiuch)

Józef Pińkowski (Pińkowski)

Mirosław Milewski Polish United Workers' Party 8 October 1980 31 July 1981 Józef Pińkowski (Pińkowski) , Wojciech Jaruzelski (Jaruzelski)
Czesław Kiszczak Polish United Workers' Party 31 JUly 1981 6 July 1990 Wojciech Jaruzelski (Jaruzelski) , Zbigniew Messner (Messner) , Czesław Kiszczak (Kiszczak), Tadeusz Mazowiecki ( Mazowiecki)
Ministers of Internal Affairs of Third Polish Republic
Krzysztof Kozłowski Independent 6 July 1990 12 January 1991 Tadeusz Mazowiecki ( Mazowiecki)
Henryk Majewski Independent 12 January 1991 23 December 1991 Jan Krzysztof Bielecki(Bielecki)
Antoni Macierewicz Christian National Union 23 December 1991 20 June 1992 Jan Olszewski (Olszewski)

Waldemar Pawlak (Pawlak I)

Andrzej Milczanowski Independent 11 July 1992 22 December 1995 Hanna Suchocka (Cabinet of Hanna Suchocka)

Waldemar Pawlak (Pawlak II)

Józef Oleksy (Oleksy)

Jerzy Konieczny Independent 29 December 1995 7 February 1996 Józef Oleksy (Oleksy)
Zbigniew Siemiątkowski Democratic Left Alliance 7 February 1996 31 December 1996 Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz(Cimoszewicz)

Replaced by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration (1997)

Office reestablished (2011)

Replaced by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration (2015)

Ministers of Internal Affairs and Administration of Third Polish Republic

Replaced by the Minister of Internal Affairs (2011)

Office reestablished (2015)

References
  1. It is equivalent to the Interior Ministry of other countries, the Home Office of the United Kingdom, or similar to a combination of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Homeland Security (United States).
  2. http://www.sejm.gov.pl/prawo/konst/polski/kon1.htm article 101
  3. https://www.pap.pl/aktualnosci/news%2C495126%2Cprezydent-odwolal-elzbiete-witek-z-urzedu-szefa-mswia.html
  4. https://www.pap.pl/aktualnosci/news%2C496821%2Cprezydent-powolal-mariusza-kaminskiego-na-stanowisko-ministra-spraw
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