Stefan Jędrychowski
Stefan Jędrychowski | |
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Minister of Finance | |
In office 1971–1974 | |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 22 December 1968 – 22 December 1971 | |
Preceded by | Adam Rapacki |
Succeeded by | Stefan Olszowski |
Deputy Prime Minister | |
In office 12 December 1951 – 24 October 1956 | |
Preceded by | Hipolit Chelchowski |
Succeeded by | Tadeusz Gade |
Personal details | |
Born |
Warsaw | 19 May 1910
Died |
26 May 1996 86) Warsaw | (aged
Nationality | Polish |
Political party |
Soviet Communist Party Polish United Workers' Party |
Alma mater | Stefan Batory University |
Stefan Jędrychowski (19 May 1910[1] – 26 May 1996[2])[3][4] was a Polish journalist and communist politician, who served as deputy prime minister, foreign minister and finance minister in Poland.
Early life and education
Born in Warsaw on 19 May 1910,[5] Jędrychowski hailed from a middle-class Catholic family, who owned properties and apartment houses in Wilno, then in the Russian part of Poland.[6][7] His mother was of German origin.[6]
He studied law and social science at Stefan Batory University in Wilno, graduating in 1932.[6] Then he obtained a master's degree in law from the same university.[7] He also received a PhD in economics.[7][8] He began his political career as a radical leftist Catholic in the group called "Odrodzenie" (renaissance) when he was an undergraduate student.[9] Then he switched to a youth organization "Legion Mlodych" (The Legion of Youth) that was founded by Józef Piłsudski after he took over the Polish government in 1926.[6] Jędrychowski became a member of the group's regional command.[6]
Career and activities
Jędrychowski began his career as an assistant lecturer in economics at Stefan Batory University.[7] In 1936, he joined the Communist Party.[7] In September 1939, he began to work as a journalist in Wilno.[7][9] Then he was named deputy editor of the local communist daily which had been published by the Soviet authorities.[7] He became a Soviet citizen and a member of the Soviet Communist Party.[7] Following the annexation of Lithuania to the Soviet Union he served at the Supreme Soviet as a deputy.[7]
Later he continued his activities in the Polish committee of national liberation’ (PKWN), which was formed on 22 July 1944.[10] Shortly after he began to serve as the PKWN's representative in Moscow.[10] He was also the Warsaw government’s delegate in France in 1945.[8] In addition, he headed the department of information and propaganda under the PKWN.[11] From 1945 to 1947 he served as minister of navigation and foreign trade in the national unity government.[7] Next he joined the Polish United Workers' party.[12] And he became an alternate member of the party's central committee or politburo.[13]
He served as the vice president or deputy prime minister at the Polish cabinet, also known as Rada Ministrów, from 12 December 1951 to 24 October 1956.[3][14] He worked as the head of the planning office, Komisja Planowania, from 1956 to 1971.[15][16] He was also promoted to the full membership of the party's central committee on 21 October 1956, being one of nine members.[13][17] At the committee he assumed the post of chief economic advisor.[18] He served as the minister of foreign affairs from 22 December 1968 to 22 December 1971.[3] In December 1971, his membership at the central committee of the party ended.[16][19] Next he was named minister of finance in 1971 and his term ended in 1974.[14]
References
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- ↑ https://www.rulers.org/indexj.html
- 1 2 3 "Polish Ministries". Rulers. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ↑ https://bliskopolski.pl/leksykon/stefan-jedrychowski/
- ↑ http://katalog.bip.ipn.gov.pl/informacje/1796
- 1 2 3 4 5 "The Communist Leadership". Open Society Archives. 14 May 1950. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Oscar Halecki (1957). Poland. New York: Frederick A. Praeger. – via Questia (subscription required)
- 1 2 "Solidarity Between Jews and Poles Stressed by Warsaw Govt. Envoy at Paris Meeting". JTA Archive. 18 February 1945. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- 1 2 "People in the Polish committee of liberation". Catholic Herald. 4 August 1944. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- 1 2 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. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ↑ "Soviet Puppet Government in Poland". Polish Information Center 1939-1945. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ↑ Applebaum, Anne (22 November 2012). "How the Communists Inexorably Changed Life". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- 1 2 Tadeusz N. Cieplak (1 January 1972). Poland Since 1956. Ardent Media. p. 9. GGKEY:05P4FRN9EUP. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- 1 2 "Overview of the Stefan Jędrychowski papers". Online Archive of California. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ↑ Samuel L. Sharp (1953). Poland White Eagle on a Red Field. Harvard University Press.
- 1 2 "Jan Svoboda's Notes on the CPSU CC Presidium Meeting with Satellite Leaders, 24 October 1956" (PDF). The George Washington University. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ↑ L. W. Gluchowski (Spring 1995). "Poland, 1956" (PDF). Wilson Bulletin (5). Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ↑ Wlodzimierz Rozenbaum (1997). "The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland, June - December 1967". Intermarium. 1 (3). Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ↑ "Polish Communists Get Younger Men". The Sun. Warsaw. Reuters. 14 December 1971. Retrieved 14 July 2013.