Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski (30 December 1888 - 22 August 1974), was a Polish politician and economist.

After Józef Piłsudski's May coup d'etat of 1926 in the Second Polish Republic, he was recommended by president Ignacy Mościcki for the post Minister of Industry and Trade in the government of Kazimierz Bartel.

Among the most famous achievements of Kwiatkowski are the giant construction projects: the construction of Gdynia seaport, the development of Polish Merchant Navy and sea trade, and the creation of Centralny Okręg Przemysłowy industrial region.

After Soviet joined Nazi Germany in the invasion of Poland in 1939, he evacuated Poland with the rest of the Government on the 17 September. He was interned in Romania until 1945. He returned to Poland and supervised the projects of reconstruction of Polish seacoast and in years 1947-1952 he was a deputy to the Polish parliament (Sejm).

With with the strenghtening of the communist and Soviet grip on the Polish government, which he opposed, he fell out of favour of the communist government of the People's Republic of Poland, and was forced to retire in 1948. From 1952 he concentrated on studies of chemistry and physics.

He died in Kraków on 22 August 1974.

Bibliography

• Janusz Zaręba, Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski - romantyczny pragmatyk, Centrum Edukacji i Rozwoju Biznesu. Instytut Naukowo-Wydawniczy, Warszawa, 1998 (ISBN 8386069856)
• Archiwum polityczne Eugeniusza Kwiatkowskiego, Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, Warszawa, 2002 (ISBN 8370596126)
• Marian Marek Drozdowski, Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich - Wydawnictwo, Wrocław, 2001 (ISBN 8304045672)
• Marian Marek Drozdowski, Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski w polskiej historiografii i publicystyce historyczno-ekonomicznej, Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Warszawa, 1992 (ISBN 8390032937)
• Marian Marek Drozdowski, Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski : człowiek i dzieło, Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków, 1989 (ISBN 8308020925)