Władysław Dworakowski
Władysław Dworakowski | |
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Chairman of the Committee for Public Security at the Council of Ministers | |
In office 14 December 1954 – 30 March 1956 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland |
In office 21 November 1952 – 18 March 1954 | |
Prime Minister | Bolesław Bierut |
Personal details | |
Born | Oblasy, Kingdom of Poland (now Poland) | 10 October 1908
Died | 17 October 1976 Warsaw, Polish People's Republic | (aged 68)
Władysław Dworakowski (10 September 1908 in Oblasy – 17 November 1976 in Warsaw) was a Polish communist politician and statesman.
Biography
Dworakowski was born in to a poor peasant family in the Lublin Governorate. He was a locksmith by profession and was active in the workers's movement. Dworakowski joined the Young Communist League of Poland in 1931and later the Communist Party of Poland in 1934 and was a member of the party until its dissolution in 1938.
In 1941-1942 he was a member of the Association of Friends of the Soviet Union and later joined the
After World War II he was a high ranking functionary in the PPR and later the Polish United Workers' Party. He was the secretary of the Central Committee and the Party District Committees in
In 1951 Dworakowski expressed condemnation of Władysław Gomułka's "polonization policy", which disregarded communist doctrines, and accused Gomułka: "Full of hatred for the Soviet Union, Gomułka led an action through which our working masses were to be won over to the bourgeoisie and the large bourgeois landowners". He was among the people responsible Gomułka's arrest.[3]
In December 1954 the Ministry of Public Security was disbanded and its functions were divided in to two different committees and Dworakowski became the chairman of Committee for Public Security (KdsBP).
After the
In 1959, Dworakowski left the party and returned to his profession as a locksmith. Later he joined Kazimierz Mijal's Communist Party of Poland and was involved in underground activity for the party.[5]
Władysław Dworakowski died in 1971 at the age of 68 and despite his stance against the PZPR received a state funeral. He was buried at the Powązki Military Cemetery.[6]
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