Henryk Świątkowski (April 2, 1896 – March 22, 1970) was a Polish lawyer, attorney and a politician, specialist in the field of religious and agricultural law, academic teacher at the University of Warsaw, member of the Sejm of the Second Republic of Poland of the second and third term, to the National Council and the Sejm of the People's Republic of Poland of the first term.

activist of the PPS and PZPR, Voivode of Pomeranian Voivodeship, Minister of Justice in the years 1945–1956, chairman of the Main Board of the Polish–Soviet Friendship Society in the period 1945–1950.

As a junior high school student, he participated in a secret self-education club and led an illegal scouting organization.

In 1928 and 1930, he was elected as a deputy to the Sejm of the Second Republic of Poland of the second and third term from the PPS list in the constituency covering the districts of Zamość, Biłgoraj and Tomaszów.

On July 12, 1940, he was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in the Pawiak prison, and on August 15 of that year he was transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where he remained until October 8, 1941, when he was unexpectedly released.

After the fall of the uprising, he reached Podhale with a group of RPPS activists and was active in the People's Army partisan unit in the Turbacz area.

He considered the most urgent task facing the Pomeranian administration to be efficient spring sowing and the reconstruction of economic life.

He was a supporter of cooperation with the Polish Workers' Party and was in favour of removing opponents of a united front with the communists from the PPS authorities.

At the PPR and PPS Unification Congress in December 1948, he was elected to the Central Committee of the newly created Polish United Workers' Party.

In addition, he was a member of the Politburo, Secretariat and Organizational Bureau of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party (until 1950).

Świątkowski's policy led to the creation of a special Law Commission at the Ministry of Justice, which included, among others, MP Michał Szuldenfrei, member of the Law and Regulations Committee of the KRN, Bolesław Walawski, then deputy director of the Political Bureau of the KRN, and head Stefan Piotrowski from the Ministry of Justice.

The result of the activities of the said Commission was a statement that coincided with the content of the resolution of the Provisional Government of National Unity of September 12, which said that the concordat did not need to be broken, because it ceased to be in force due to the fault of the Vatican.