Edward Werner

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industrialist, and politician. He was best known as Vice-Minister of Finance in the Second Polish Republic.[1][2][3]

Life

Edward Werner was born in 1878 in

Auschwitz, but survived and emigrated to the United States with her nephew and nieces, and later married Józef Nabel and had three children of her own, one of whom, Marie Nabel Cohen married Jared Diamond
.

Professional career

As an economist, Werner was judge of the Court of Commerce, Instructor of Public Servants, and Lecturer in Taxation and Finance. As a businessman, he engaged in trade in grain and fertilizers. As an industrialist, his interests were in the manufacture of tobacco and the production of sugar, and he was opposed to the introduction of the state tobacco monopoly in Poland in 1924. He became a Councilman of Warsaw, and in 1934 he was vice-Minister of Finance, with all the State monopolies under his authority.

Werner was an active Lutheran and supported charities such as the

Red Cross and superintended the work in the hospital. At the beginning of World War II, Werner witnessed the bombardment of Warsaw by the Germans.[4]

In 1940 he travelled to the United States, where he applied for citizenship in 1941. He lectured widely in the United States and Canada on religious matters and on Poland, and was also involved with the Polish government-in-exile.[5]

He died of a heart attack in 1945, in New York City, and is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.

See also

  • List of Finance Ministers of Poland

References

  1. ^ The New York Times – EDWARD WERNER; Ex-Vice Minister of Finance of Poland Had Lectured Here – November 17, 1945, Saturday – Page 17 [1]
  2. ^ Los Angeles Times – Polish Spirit Held Unbroken – Fight Will Go on, Says Former Official of Conquered State – Jan 10, 1942 [2] Archived 2012-10-24 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Milwaukee Journal – War Is A Fight for Christianity – Feb. 13, 1942". Archived from the original on 2019-12-15. Retrieved 2016-09-20.
  4. ^ Berkeley Daily Gazette – Industrialist From Poland Will Speak – Sept. 25, 1942 [3]
  5. JSTOR 2745536
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External links

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