Henryk Jabłoński

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henryk Jabłoński

Henryk Jan Jabłoński [ ˈxɛnrɨk jabˈwɔɲskʲi ] (born December 27, 1909 in Waliszew near Łowicz , † January 27, 2003 in Warsaw ) was a Polish communist politician and historian .

He studied history and in 1931 became a member of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS). During the Second World War he fought at Narvik, among others, and actively supported the French Resistance . After the end of the war, he soon advocated the unification of PPS and PPR to form the PVAP and in 1947 was a member of the Sejm (until 1972). From 1948 to 1981 he was a member of the Central Committee of the PZPR, from 1971 to 1981 also of the Politburo . He served in government from 1965 to 1966 as Minister of Education and from 1966 to 1972 as Minister of Education and Higher Education. In this capacity he signed the decree to expel demonstrating students from universities after the March 1968 riots . At the initiative of Edward Gierek , Jabłoński was appointed Chairman of the State Council of the People's Republic of Poland in 1972 and held this post through the breaks of 1980/1981 until 1985, when he was replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski .

Quasi on the side, he worked as a professor of history at the University of Warsaw from 1948 , and from 1952 at the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), who mainly dealt with questions of party and contemporary history.

Works

  • Polityka PPS w trakcie wojny 1914-1918 " (1958)
  • Narodziny II Rzeczpospolita (1962)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henryk Jan Jabłoński. In: sejm-wielki.pl. Retrieved March 26, 2019 (Polish).

Web links