Polityka administracyjna resortu spraw wewnętrznych Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w zakresie spraw wojskowych w latach 1926–1939
The Administration Policy of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Poland Concerning Military Affairs in the Years 1926–1939

Summary/Abstract: The administration policy of the Ministry of the Interior concerning military affairs in the years 1926–1939 was implemented by ministers of the interior and by selected organizational units of the Ministry of the Interior (Independent Military Department, Military Office), and by voivodes (military departments of voivodeship offices) and mayors locally (military units of municipality offices). During the first period of the government of Józef Piłsudski (1926–1930), the management of the Ministry of the Interior focused on organizational improvements in central and territorial bodies, i.e. in the general and territorial local government administration. Their main tasks involved: facilitating the conscription of recruits to the army, paying out military allo- wances, preparing a public administration structure for war mobilization and protection. Military training was supplemented radically by including physical education and by initiating social committees for physical education and physical training. Less attention was devoted to national anti-air and anti-gas defence. In the years 1930–1935, the Ministry of Military Affairs focused on improving current forms and methods of military conscription, military allowances, mobilization and protection, supervision over the cooperation of the general administration with commands of military units during training along with physical education and physical training. Much attention was concurrently devoted to the Republic’s anti-air and anti-gas defence. During the final years before the Second World War (1935–1939), war preparations were the priority. Of importance remained: military conscription, particularly after the announcement of 23 March 1939 about emergency military conscription via a secret system, mobiliza- tion and protection (e.g. immobilizing “undesirable elements in the state”), developing physical education and physical training, extending the structure of the nation’s anti-air and anti-gas defence, which involved the cooperation of the general administration, the local government, social associations, e.g. the League of Anti-air and Anti-gas Defence, the Polish Red Cross and the Association of Fire Brigades.

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