Aleksander Zawadzki
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Aleksander Zawadzki | |
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1st Chairman of the State Council of the Polish People's Republic | |
In office 20 November 1952 – 7 August 1964 | |
Prime Minister | Bolesław Bierut Józef Cyrankiewicz |
First Secretary | Bolesław Bierut Edward Ochab Władysław Gomułka |
Preceded by | Bolesław Bierut (as President of Poland) |
Succeeded by | Edward Ochab |
Deputy Prime Minister of the Polish People's Republic | |
In office 28 April 1950 – 21 November 1952 Serving with See list
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Prime Minister | Józef Cyrankiewicz |
Preceded by | Hilary Chełchowski |
Succeeded by | Władysław Dworakowski Konstanty Rokossowski Józef Cyrankiewicz |
In office 20 January 1949 – 10 June 1949 Serving with See list
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Prime Minister | Józef Cyrankiewicz |
Preceded by | Stanisław Mikołajczyk |
Succeeded by | Hilary Minc |
Personal details | |
Born | 16 December 1899 Polish United Workers Party (1948–1964) |
Aleksander Zawadzki, alias Kazik, Wacek, Bronek, One (Polish pronunciation: [alɛˈksandɛr zaˈvat͡skʲi]; 16 December 1899 – 7 August 1964) was a Polish communist politician, divisional general of the Polish Army, and the Chairman of the State Council of the Polish People's Republic from 1952 until his death in 1964.
Biography
Son of Wawrzyniec, a steelworker
After returning from the war, he was initially unemployed, and then he worked at the coal mine "Paris" in Dąbrowa Górnicza. There he also encountered the communist movement and joined the Young Communist League of Poland. In 1923 he became a member of the Communist Party of Poland. During this period he was wanted by state police for communist activities. He operated in the Łódź District until 1924, after which he was sent to a party school in Moscow, where he stayed for several weeks. On July 9, 1925, he was arrested in Vilnius on charges of involvement in a murder of a supposed police informant. In December 1925, despite the lack of evidence for his involvement, he was sentenced to six years in prison. He served his sentence in Kielce, Łomża and Drohobych. He left prison on March 2, 1932, and because of illness, was sent to the Soviet Union for treatment. There, he healed and taught at the party school of the WKP (b) and the OGPU near Moscow.
He returned to Poland in 1934. On May 27, 1934, he was arrested in Warsaw. He was detained in custody until February 1935, when he was released on bail. On January 13, 1936, he was arrested again. He was then accused of acting to the detriment of the Republic of Poland. The trial took place on April 4-21, 1938. Along with Zawadzki, who was the main accused, 55 other people were tried. Zawadzki was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. After upholding the judgment of November 23, 1938 by the Court of Appeals, he was imprisoned in Brest. He stayed there until September 1939, when after the Soviet invasion of Poland, the city was occupied by the Red Army. He took up work in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Pinsk district office.
Zawadzki was elected to the
Zawadzki died on 7 August 1964 of cancer at the age of 64.
Honours and awards
- Knight's Cross of the Virtuti Militari
- Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Order of the Builders of People's Poland
- Order of the Banner of Labour, 1st Class
- Cross of Grunwald, 2nd Class
- Cross of Valour (1920)
- Partisan Cross (12 June 1946)
- Silesian Insurrectionary Cross
- Order of the Yugoslav Great Star (1964)[2]
References
- ^ "Biuletyn Informacji Publicznej Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej". katalog.bip.ipn.gov.pl. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
- ^ "ПРЕДСЕДНИКУ ТИТУ и ЧЛАНОВИМА ЊЕГОВЕ ПРАТЊЕ УРУЧЕНА НАЈВИША ПОЉСКА ОДЛИКОВАЊА". Borba. XXIX (173): 2. 26 June 1964.