Bogdan Załuski

Bogdan Załuski (born September 30, 1924 in Pruzhany - November 28, 1977) was a Polish politician and security service officer who served as Mayor of Białystok from 1956 to 1958.

Biography Son of Adam and Rozalia, he was born on September 30, 1924, in Pružany, Polesie Voivodeship..

He completed six years of primary school in Bochnia. In 1939, he began working as a firewood cutter. He worked there until 1942. Threatened with conscription into a forced labor camp by the German occupation authorities, he moved to Kraków, where he worked on a construction site. In 1944, he returned to Bochnia and contacted the local Home Army cell. He served as a liaison there. In January 1945, he began working at the Public Security Office in Bochnia. During this time, he joined the Polish Workers' Party.

From March 1945, he was a clerk and senior clerk at the District Office of Public Security in Bochnia. In 1946, he became an investigative officer in Section II of the 5th Department of the in Białystok, serving as head of Sections II and V in that office. He rose to the rank of lieutenant. An activist in the Polish United Workers' Party, he served as a member of the executive of the Municipal Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party in Białystok in the second half of the 1950s. He was twice awarded the Silver Cross of Merit (the second time in 1952).