Stefan Olszowski

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Stefan Olszowski
Mieczyslaw Rakowski
Preceded byJózef Czyrek
Succeeded byMarian Orzechowski
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
22 December 1971 – 2 December 1976
Preceded byStefan Jędrychowski
Succeeded byEmil Wojtaszek
Personal details
Born(1931-08-28)28 August 1931
Toruń, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Died19 December 2023(2023-12-19) (aged 92)
Political partyPolish United Workers' Party

Stefan Michał Olszowski (28 August 1931 – 19 December 2023) was a Polish politician, who was a member of

People's Republic of Poland
for two terms.

Biography

Mieczyslaw Jagielski, Minister of Foreign Affairs Stefan Olszowski, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft
, and interpreter Henryk Sokalski in the Oval Office.

Olszowski was born in

Torun on 28 August 1931.[1] He was a member of the Politburo of the Polish United Workers' Party from December 1970 to his resignation on 12 November 1985.[2][3] He served as the propaganda chief of the party in the late 1960s and at the beginning of the 1970s.[4][5]

Olszowski was appointed foreign minister on 22 December 1971, replacing Stefan Jędrychowski in the post.[6] He was in office until 2 December 1976 when Emil Wojtaszek replaced him in the post.[6] In 1980, he was appointed ambassador to East Germany and left the politburo for this post that he held just six months.[3] Then he continued to serve at the politburo.[3] He acted as the party's central committee secretary for ideology and media from August 1980 to July 1982.[7][8] Then he was secondly appointed foreign minister in July 1982, replacing Józef Czyrek in the post.[8] Before his appointment as foreign minister he run for the presidency of the party, but he was not elected.[9] His term as foreign minister ended on 12 November 1985.[10] He was also dismissed from the party leadership in 1985, partly due to his relationship with a Polish journalist whom he married after divorcing his first spouse.[11] Then he and his girlfriend settled in New York in 1986.[12][13]

Views and activities

Under the

Mieczyslaw Rakowski directly attacked on some of the Pope's pronouncements.[17]

Olszowski together with other hard-liners strived for an armed confrontation with the Solidarity movement.[18] He was instrumental in cracking down the movement at its initial phase.[12]

Personal life and death

Olszowski married twice. Following his divorce, he married a younger Polish journalist woman.[13] They live in New York.[13]

Stefan Olszowski died on 19 December 2023, at the age of 92.[19]

References

  1. ^ Current world leaders: Almanac. 1972. p. 20.
  2. ^ "Poland's Foreign Minister Loses Power Struggle, Quits Politburo". Orlando Sentinel. 12 November 1985. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  3. ^ a b c "Poland's foreign minister off politburo". Toledo Blade. Warsaw. AP. 12 November 1985. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  4. ^ a b Feliks Tych (2011). "A Historical Miracle: Jewish Life in Poland afterCommunism" (PDF). Deep Roots, New Branches: 31.
  5. ^ "Red Poles put blame for economic failure". Star News. Warsaw. UPI. 7 February 1971. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  6. ^ a b "Polish Ministries". Rulers. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  7. ^ Karl Molin (30 June 2011). "The CPSU Politburo and the Polish crisis 1980—1981". Baltic Worlds. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  8. ^ a b Anna Snutt (22 July 1982). "Veteran Polish politician is named foreign minister". The CS Monitor. Warsaw. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  9. ^ "New leadership team shifts focus to economy" (PDF). CIA. 10 December 1985. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  10. ^ Gillette, Robert (13 November 1985). "Poland Completes Leadership Reshuffle". Los Angeles Times. Warsaw. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  11. ^ "Don't Mess with Cupid: A Remembrance". Hoover Archivists' Musings. Blog of the Hoover Institution Library and Archives. 7 September 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  12. ^ a b c Douglas Martin (20 May 1988). "Love Moves Ex-Polish Leader From Warsaw to Rego Park". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  13. ^ a b c "More of Polish Foreign Minister's Papers Received by Hoover Archives". Hoover Institution. 3 December 2015. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  14. ISBN 023106540X
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  15. ^ George Schopflin. "Poland: Troubled Relations Between Church and State" (PDF). Biblical Studies.
  16. ^ "Warsaw minister calls on the Pope". Calgary Herald. Rome. 13 November 1973. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  17. doi:10.1080/09637498408431112
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  18. ^ Przemysław Gasztold-Seń (4 October 2011). "The Road to Martial Law: Polish Communist Authorities vs. Solidarity" (PDF). Polish Institute of National Remembrance. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  19. ^ "Wojskowe Powązki dla kolejnego dygnitarza z PRL" (in Polish). RP. 8 February 2024. Retrieved 26 February 2024.

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