Career
After Józef Piłsudski"s May coup d"état 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. East. Kwiatkowski was a minister in eight successive governments (1926-1930) and Deputy Prime Minister of Poland and Minister of Treasure in two governments (1935-1939). After the Soviet Union joined Nazi Germany in the invasion of Poland in 1939, he evacuated Poland with the rest of the Government on 17 September.
He was interned in Romania until 1945.
He returned to Poland and supervised the projects of reconstruction of the Polish seacoast, and in the years 1947–1952, he was a deputy to the Polish parliament (Sejm). With the strengthening 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 onward, he concentrated on studies of chemistry, physics, and history. He died in Krakow on 22 August 1974.