Czesław Bobrowski

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Czesław Bobrowski
Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire
Died18 May 1996(1996-05-18) (aged 92)
Warsaw, Poland
Memorial plaque in Warsaw-Żoliborz

Czesław Bobrowski (17 February 1904, in

postwar Poland, he was a director of Central Planning Office (Centralny Urząd Planowania) from 1945–1948, author of the Three-Year Plan. He was also a member of the State National Council (1945–1947) and Parliament
(1947–1948).

Sidelined by

developing countries (Algeria, Ghana and Syria
). Chairman of the Consultant Economy Council from 1981–1987, member of the Counsultant Council to the Head of State from 1986–1990.

He was the author of many academic publications in the realm of economics.

Early life and education

Son of Adolf Korolko-Bobrowski and Jadwiga from Okło-Kułaków originally from the vicinity of Mstsislaw in Belarus. As a volunteer (a senior shooter) he participated in the Polish–Soviet War . Graduate of the gymnasium in Lublin (1921), the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw from 1925. In the years 1925–1926 he worked as legal consultant of the Consulate General in Prague . Intern at the Paris School of Political Sciences ( Ecole des Sciences Politiques ) from 1927.

Pre war

In the period 1927–1929 he worked in the economic department of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the republic of Poland (Ministerstwo Przemysłu i Handlu II RP), performing, among others, the function of deputy commissioner of the Polish Trade Association with Russia "Polros". In the years 1931–1932 he was the director of the Soviet-Polish commercial company Sowpoltorg in Moscow , then in the period 1935–1939 the director of the economic department at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of the republic of Poland. In the 1930s he founded and became the editor-in-chief of the " Gospodarka Narodowa " magazine, gathering a group of young economists around him.

Second world war

After the aggression of the

Red Cross, then in the Society for the Care of Poles in France. He helped refugees from Poland and was imprisoned in the camps. In 1943, avoiding arrest by the Gestapo, he left occupied France, through Spain and Portugal he reached Gibraltar from where he went to London. In London, in 1944, he found himself in a study group at the Minister of Treasury in the Polish Government in exile, Ludwik Grosfeld. The team developed a program for the reconstruction and development of Poland after war damage and model solutions for the Economy of Poland
after the war.

Post war

After the establishment in June 1945 in the implementation of the Yalta Conference of the Provisional Government of National Unity and the withdrawal of international recognition on 6 July 1945 for the Polish Government in exile, in August 1945 Czesław Bobrowski returned to Poland (similarly to Ludwik Grosfeld).

He was co-opted to the

Institute of Political Sciences and the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris
( Center Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique).

Return to Poland

After October 1956, he returned to Poland, became a research worker at the University of Warsaw and vice-chairman of the Economic Council of the Council of Ministers (1957–1963). In 1958 he received the title of full professor at the University of Warsaw, from where he left after the events of March 1968 . In the period 1967–1971 he was a lecturer at the University of Paris I - La Sorbonne. In the 1970s he was a UN expert advising in Algeria, Ghana, Iraq and Syria. Chairman of the Consultative Economic Council in 1981–1987. A member of the Consultative Council at the Chairman of the Council of State PRL Wojciech Jaruzelski in 1986–1990. Honorary President of the Polish Economic Society in 1986.

Later life

Member of the State National Council (1945–1947) and Legislative Sejm (1947–1948). A member of the Polish Socialist Party (in 1946–1948) he was a member of the general council), then PZPR .

In 1961, together with Zygmunt Bauman, Jan Strzelecki and Jerzy Wiatr, he participated in a discussion devoted to the future of Polish society. Not as a sociologist, educator or psychologist, but as an economist, the greatest danger threatening in our social life, he saw in the gaps of social education, in the erroneous philosophical justifications of human attitudes: the sense of the absurdity of life and the feeling of lack of connection between his own actions and what it meets us, the philosophy of blind destiny is by no means fully overcome ....[3]

Author of a number of economic works published in Poland and abroad.

Publications

  • Conditions and ways of economic development of the village (1936)
  • Social policy on the economic background (1944)
  • At the source of socialist planning (1956)
  • Socialist Yugoslavia (1957)
  • Models of the socialist economy (1957)
  • Economic planning. Basic problems (1965)
  • On mixed economy in Third World countries (1967)
  • Sources, problems and trends in the transformation of economic planning (1981)
  • Memories from the century (1985)

Medals

Decorated, among others Gold Cross of Merit with Swords, Medal of Victory and Freedom 1945, Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1946),[4] Commander's Cross with the Star of the Order of the White Lion ( Czechoslovakia ), Commander's Cross with the OOP Star and the Order of Polish People's Builders.

See also

References

  1. ^ Czesław Bobrowski: From memories 1945–1948 , "Kwartalnik Historyczny" No. 3/1979, pp. 701-732.
  2. ISBN 978-83-235-2069-6
    , p. 139
  3. ^ Jak działać, jak żyć, „Nowa Kultura” 1961, nr 49
  4. ^ M.P. z 1947 r. Nr 74, poz. 490

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