Ministry of National Defence (Poland)

Ministry of National Defence
	Ministerstwo Obrony Narodowej
	Official governmental wall plaque
	Ministerial logotype
Agency overview
Headquarters	ul. Klonowa 1, Warsaw
Agency executive	Antoni Macierewicz, Minister of National Defence; , First Deputy Minister;
Parent agency	Council of Ministers
Website	www.mon.gov.pl

The Ministry of National Defence's seat on Klonowa Street in Warsaw's government district.

The main gate to the Ministry of National Defence complex on Klonowa Street.

The Ministry of National Defence as seen from Belwederska Street.

Ministry of National Defence (Ministerstwo Obrony Narodowej) is the office of government in Poland under the Minister of National Defence. During the Second Polish Republic and World War II it was called the Ministry of Military Affairs. Ministry budget for 2008 is 23.7 billion zlotys (11 billion USD)

Ministers

List of Ministers of National Defence / Ministers of Military Affairs (pl. Ministrowie Obrony Narodowej / Ministrowie Spraw Wojskowych). The current Minister of ND is Antoni Macierewicz.

2nd Republic

gen. bryg. Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1918)
p.o. gen. dyw. Jan Wroczyński (1918–1919)
gen. dyw. Józef Leśniewski (1919–1920)
gen. dyw. Kazimierz Sosnkowski (1921–1923)
p.o. gen. dyw. Aleksander Osiński (1923)
gen. dyw. Władysław Sikorski (1924–1925)
gen. broni Lucjan Żeligowski (1925–1926)
gen. dyw. Juliusz Tadeusz Tarnawa-Malczewski (1926)
Pierwszy Marszałek Polski Józef Piłsudski (1926–1935)
gen. dyw. Tadeusz Kasprzycki (1935–1939)

World War II

gen. broni Władysław Sikorski (1939–1943)
gen. dyw. Marian Kukiel (1943–1944)

People's Poland

Marsz. Polski Michał Żymierski (1945–1952)
Marsz. Polski Konstanty Rokossowski (1952–1957)
Marsz. Polski Marian Spychalski (1957–1968)
gen. armii Wojciech Jaruzelski (1968–1985)
gen. armii Florian Siwicki (1985–1989)

3rd Republic

gen. armii Florian Siwicki (1989-1990)
wiceadm. Piotr Kołodziejczyk (1990–1991)
Jan Parys (December 23, 1991–1992)
p.o. Romuald Szeremietiew (1992)
Janusz Onyszkiewicz (1992–1993)
Piotr Kołodziejczyk (1993–1994)
p.o. Jerzy Milewski (1994–1995)
Zbigniew Okoński (1995)
Stanisław Dobrzański (1996–1997)
Janusz Onyszkiewicz (1997–2000)
Bronisław Komorowski (2000–2001)
Jerzy Szmajdziński (October 19, 2001 – October 31, 2005)
Radosław Sikorski (October 31, 2005 – February 7, 2007)
Aleksander Szczygło (February 7, 2007 – November 16, 2007 excluding 7–9 October 2007 )
Jarosław Kaczyński (7–9 October 2007 as Prime Minister and Minister of ND)
Bogdan Klich (November 16, 2007 – July 29, 2011)
Tomasz Siemoniak (2 August 2011 – 12 November 2015)
Antoni Macierewicz (16 November 2015 – )