Bronisław Wilhelm Pieracki (28 May 1895 – 15 June 1934) was a Polish military officer and politician.

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Bronisław Wilhelm Pieracki
Bronisław Pieracki
Minister of Interior of the Republic of Poland
In office 23 June 1931 – 15 June 1934
Preceded by	Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski
Succeeded by	Leon Kozłowski
Personal details
Born	(1895-05-28)28 May 1895 Gorlice, Austria-Hungary
Died	15 June 1934(1934-06-15) (aged 39) Warsaw, Poland
Resting place	Cemetery in Nowy Sącz
Nationality	Polish
Political party	Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government
Occupation	Politician, military officer
Military service
Branch/service	Polish Army
Battles/wars	Polish-Ukrainian War

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As a member of the Polish Legions in World War I, Pieracki took part in the Polish-Ukrainian War (1918–1919). He later supported Józef Piłsudski's May 1926 Coup.

In 1928 Pieracki was a deputy in the Polish Sejm from the Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government, and afterward deputy Chief of Staff ^{[of what?]}.

He was minister of internal affairs from 27 May 1931^[1] until his 1934 assassination, and was posthumously awarded Poland's highest civilian and military decoration, the Order of the White Eagle.

On 15 June 1934, Pieracki was assassinated by a member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. His death gave Poland's Sanation government a justification to create, two days after the assassination, the Bereza Kartuska Prison. The prison's first detainees were almost entirely the leadership of the Polish nationalist far-right National Radical Camp (the ONR), arrested on 6–7 July 1934.^[2]

Sentenced to death in the Pieracki assassination were Stepan Bandera, Mykola Lebed and Yaroslav Karpynets. Their sentences were commuted to life imprisonment, and both managed to escape during the German invasion of Poland.^[3]

• Order of White Eagle
• Order of Polonia Restituta
• Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari
• Cross of Valour - four times
• Gold Cross of Merit
• Order of the Cross of the Eagle Class I (Estonia, 1934)

• Tadeusz Hołówko
• Mykola Lebed