Stefan Jędrychowski

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Stefan Jędrychowski
Deputy Prime Minister
In office
12 December 1951 – 24 October 1956
Preceded byHilary Chełchowski
Succeeded byTadeusz Gede
Personal details
Born(1910-05-19)19 May 1910
Stefan Batory University
ProfessionPolitician, economist, journalist

Stefan Jędrychowski (19 May 1910 – 26 May 1996) was a Polish

minister of finance
.

Early life and education

Jędrychowski was born on 19 May 1910 in

Wilno, in the Russian part of Poland.[3][4]

Jędrychowski graduated from

radical leftist in a group called the Renaissance (Polish: Odrodzenie) as an undergraduate student. He went on to join the Legion of Youth (Polish: Legion Mlodych), which was founded by Józef Piłsudski after he took over the Polish government in 1926.[3] Jędrychowski became a member of the group's regional command.[3]

Career and activities

Jędrychowski began his career as an assistant lecturer in economics at Stefan Batory University.[4] In 1936, he joined the

Soviet Communist Party.[4] Following the annexation of Lithuania to the Soviet Union he served at the Supreme Soviet of the Supreme Soviet as a deputy.[4]

Later Jędrychowski continued his activities in the Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN), which was formed on 22 July 1944.[7] Shortly after he began to serve as the PKWN's representative in Moscow.[7] He was also the Warsaw government's delegate in France in 1945.[5] In addition, he headed the department of information and propaganda under the PKWN.[8] From 1945 to 1947 he served as minister of navigation and foreign trade in the national unity government.[4] Next he joined the Polish United Workers' Party.[9] And he became an alternate member of the party's central committee or politburo.[10]

Jędrychowski served as the vice president or deputy prime minister at the Polish cabinet, also known as

minister of finance on 22 December 1971, and his term ended on 21 November 1974.[11][18]

Death

Jędrychowski died in Warsaw on 26 May 1996.[16][19]

References

  1. ^ Radio Free Europe Research: East Europe. Situation report. Poland. Radio Free Europe. 1971.
  2. ^ "Biuletyn Informacji Publicznej Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej". katalog.bip.ipn.gov.pl (in Polish).
  3. ^ a b c d "The Communist Leadership in Eastern Europe". Blinken Open Society Archives. 14 May 1959. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  4. ^
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  5. ^ a b "Solidarity Between Jews and Poles Stressed by Warsaw Govt. Envoy at Paris Meeting". JTA Archive. 18 February 1945. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  6. ^ "People in the Polish committee of liberation". Catholic Herald. 4 August 1944. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  7. ^ a b Jacek Tebinka. "Policy of The Soviet Union towards The Warsaw Uprising 1 August – 2 October 1944". London Branch of the Polish Home Army Ex-Servicemen Association.
  8. ^ "Soviet Puppet Government in Poland". Polish Information Center 1939-1945. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  9. ^ Anne Applebaum (22 November 2012). "How the Communists Inexorably Changed Life". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  10. ^ a b Tadeusz N. Cieplak (1972). Poland Since 1956. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc. p. 9. GGKEY:05P4FRN9EUP.
  11. ^ a b "Overview of the Stefan Jędrychowski papers". Online Archive of California. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  12. ^ Samuel L. Sharp (1953). Poland White Eagle on a Red Field. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  13. ^ a b "Jan Svoboda's Notes on the CPSU CC Presidium Meeting with Satellite Leaders, 24 October 1956" (PDF). George Washington University. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  14. ^ L. W. Gluchowski (Spring 1995). "Poland, 1956" (PDF). Wilson Bulletin (5).
  15. ^ Wlodzimierz Rozenbaum (1997). "The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland, June - December 1967". Intermarium. 1 (3).
  16. ^ a b "Polish Ministries". Rulers. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  17. ^ "Polish Communists Get Younger Men". The Sun. Warsaw. Reuters. 14 December 1971. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  18. ^ "Ministrowie finansów - Ministerstwo Finansów - Portal Gov.pl".
  19. ^ "Jędrychowski Stefan". Blisko Polski (in Polish).

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