Adam Rapacki
Adam Rapacki (born December 24, 1909 in Lemberg , † October 10, 1970 in Warsaw ) was a Polish politician and economist .
life and work
In the interwar period he belonged to various socialist organizations and in 1939 he was captured as a German prisoner of war. After the end of the war he became a socialist again in 1948 through the union of the Polish Socialist Party and the Polish Workers' Party, a member of the Polish United Workers Party . Between 1948 and 1968 he was a member of the Politburo . Appointed Minister for Shipping as early as 1947, he moved three years later to the department for higher education. The new party leader Gomułka made him Foreign Minister in 1956. Rapacki withdrew from political life during the communist, anti-Semitic purges of March 1968 .
Rapacki plan
As Foreign Minister, at the 12th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in October 1957, he presented a plan named after him ( Rapacki Plan ) for the creation of a nuclear weapons-free zone in Central Europe, which included the Federal Republic of Germany , the GDR , the People's Republic of Poland and later also the Czechoslovakia should include. The plan was hailed in the People's Republic of Poland as part of the “peace policy” of the Soviet camp in Europe, but was rejected by the Western powers because of the feared strategic weakening of NATO compared to the Warsaw Pact .
Web links
- Rapacki on "deutsche-und-polen.de"
- Historical study of the Rapacki Plan (PDF) (435 kB)
- Rapacki on the IPN website (Polish)
Footnotes
- ↑ Adam Ropacki on the website of the Institute for National Remembrance (Polish)
- ↑ Article in the "Zeit" about the Rapacki Plan from 1964 , accessed on October 21, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rapacki, Adam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish politician and economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lviv |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 10, 1970 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |