Jan Piekałkiewicz

Jan Piekałkiewicz (19 September 1892 – 19 February 1943) was a Polish economist and statistician, politician and the Polish Underground State's Government Delegate.

Biography Jan Piekałkiewicz was born on the 19 September 1892 in Kursk, to a Polish intelligentsia family. He studied in St. Petersburg and in Poznań.

He was an employee of the Central Statistical Office, and was one of the organizers of the Polish census of 1921. From 1923 to 1924 he was a professor at the University of Lviv. and in 1927 he became a member of the International Statistical Institute. and People's Party (Stronnictwo Ludowe, from 1931). From 1938 to 1939 he was a member of the Main Council of the People's Party. (or 17 September - sources vary) 1942 he replaced Cyryl Ratajski as Delegate. As Delegate, he was succeeded by Jan Stanisław Jankowski.

He was arrested by the Germans on 19 February 1943, tortured, then murdered on 19 June 1943.

In 1995 he was posthumously awarded the Order of the White Eagle.

Works Atlas statystyczny Polski, with Ignacy Weinfeld and Edward Szturm de Sztrem, tome 1 in 1924, tome 2 in 1925 O programie gospodarczym Polski, with Brunon Balukiewicz La Pologne contemporaine : atlas statistique, 1926 Bilans płatniczy polski = La Balance des payements de la Pologne, 1926 Okrȩgi gospodarcze Polski : Les régions économiques de la Pologne, 1927 Długi samorządu terytorjalnego = Les dettes des administrations autonomes territoriales, 1929 Le service statistique des banques de crédit agricole hypothécaire, 1931 La statistique de l'activité économique des entreprises d'état, 1933 Statistique du crédit hypothécaire, 1933 Sprawozdanie z badań skladu ludności robotniczej w Polsce metoda̜ reprezentacyjna̜, 1934