Adam Warminski's VERSES AND PROSE 1921 IGNIS [Adam Koc] President of the Bank of Poland.

WARMIŃSKI Adam [KOC Adam]: WIERSZE I PROZA, Towarzystwo Wydawnicze IGNIS Warsaw 1921 p. 79[1] 15.5x12.5cm

Adam Ignacy Koc, a.k.a. Witold, Szlachetny, Adam Krajewski, Adam Warmiński, Witold Warmiński (born July 31, 1891 in Suwalki, died February 3, 1969 in New York) - Polish military officer and politician, MP, journalist, a certified colonel of infantry of the Polish Army, freemason, participant in the struggle for Polish independence in World War I and the Polish-Bolshevik War. Since December 1919 in the Polish Army. During the Polish-Bolshevik War, commander of the 201st infantry regiment of the Warsaw Defense, and later of the Volunteer Division (July 31-December 3, 1920). Later in various positions in the Ministry of Military Affairs. Participant in the May Coup on the side of the forces commanded by Jozef Pilsudski. Later as chief of staff of the District Corps Command No. VI in Lvov (from September 14, 1926 to March 4, 1928). Deputy Treasury Minister (from December 23, 1930 to December 1935) and Government Commissioner at the Bank of Poland (January 1932 to December 1935). One of the main negotiators and authors of the Second Republic's loan agreements with France and Great Britain. President of the Bank of Poland from February 7, 1936 to April 27, 1936. After the death of Jozef Pilsudski in the group of supporters of General Edward Smigly-Rydz. Commander-in-Chief of the Union of Polish Legionaries (May 24, 1936 - June 25, 1938). Co-author of the program and later head of the Oboz Zjednoczenia Narodowego (February 1937 - January 1938). Proponent of the rapprochement of the Sanation with the National Democracy and the National-Radical Movement "Falanga". During the 1939 September campaign, he coordinated the evacuation of the Bank of Poland's gold from the country. Deputy Treasury Minister (from September 10, 1939) in Felicjan Slawoj Składkowski's cabinet, then Treasury Minister (September 30, 1939-December 9, 1939) and Minister of Industry and Trade (October 9, 1939-December 9, 1939), and then Second Undersecretary of State in the Treasury Ministry in Władysław Sikorski's government-in-exile. From 1940 until his death he stayed in the United States, where he was, among other things, deputy director of the Jozef Pilsudski Institute in America.