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Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
About Antoni Roman
- Antoni Roman (September 10, 1892 - April 28, 1951) was a Polish politician, senator, diplomat and minister of trade and commerce in the Second Polish Republic. Roman was born in Warsaw, which was then part of Russian-controlled Congress Poland.
- He graduated from a Russian language high school in Warsaw (1910), and continued his education at the Technical University in Berlin, German Empire.
- His studies were interrupted by the outbreak of World War One.
- Roman in 1915 went to Sankt Petersburg, working as a civil servant.
- He also was an active member of Polish organizations. In 1918, Antoni Roman returned to Warsaw, finding a job at the Ministry of Trade and Commerce.
- In 1919, he was transferred to the Ministry of International Affairs, and was later on sent to New York, as a deputy consul.
- In 1922 - 1926, Roman studied economics at Poznan University.
- In 1927 he returned to the Ministry of International Affairs.
- He was a Polish attache in the Free City of Danzig and participated in several diplomatic missions.
- Furthermore, he lectured at the universities in Warsaw and Lwów.
- In 1934, Roman became Polish envoy to Sweden, where he remained until May 1936.
- Upon returning to Poland, he was named Minister of Trade and Commerce in the government of Felicjan Slawoj Skladkowski.
- Roman remained in his post until September 30, 1939.
- At the same time, he also was a senator upon the nomination of President Ignacy Moscicki.
- In May 1939, he opened Polish pavilion at 1939 New York World's Fair. Roman spent World War Two in Romania, together with Józef Beck.
- He returned to Poland after the war, and took a job at the re-created Ministry of Trade and Commerce.
- Diagnosed with diabetes, he died in Warsaw in 1951, and was buried at the Powazki Cemetery.
- He had a wife Maria née Zaleska, and no children.
- Among Roman's awards were: Order of Polonia Restituta (1933), Order of St.
- Sava, Order of the Crown (Belgium), Order of the Three Stars, and Order of Vasa.
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