Hilary Minc

Hilary Minc (born August 24, 1905 in Kazimierz Dolny , † November 26, 1974 in Warsaw ) was a Polish economist and politician.

Minc, son of a middle-class Jewish family, joined the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) in 1921 and studied law at the University of Warsaw . When he was threatened with arrest for agitation activities , he fled to France, where he was able to continue his studies. He completed this with a doctorate on money circulation. In France he also appeared as a trade unionist and helped Polish miners in northern France in the CGT unionto organize. In 1928 he was expelled from France for this reason. Back in Poland, he entered the civil service (Statistical Office and Advisory Board in the Ministry of Finance), but was dismissed because of his ongoing political activities. From 1939 he lived in the USSR, where he initially taught economics at the University of Samarkand .

In 1943 he was a co-organizer of 1 Warszawska Dywizja Piechoty , the nucleus of the later Polish People's Army . He belonged to various communist organizations and was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the PPR since 1944, and of the PZPR ( PVAP ) after 1948 . From 1944 to 1947 he was also Minister for Industry, from 1947 to 1949 for Industry and Trade, from 1949 to 1956 Deputy Prime Minister, and from 1949 to 1954 also Chairman of the State Commission for Economic Planning.

At a celebration for the recovery of the so - called reclaimed territories , Minc declared his joy at the return of the territories gained by the Potsdam Agreement and declared that Poland had every right to liquidate the remaining German population.

Minc was next to Bolesław Bierut and Jakub Berman the most important communist functionary in Poland in the heyday of Stalinism . After 1956 he completely withdrew from public life.

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Presentation of the Minister for Industry and Trade , Hilary Minc, on the guidelines of the social and economic system, given to the plenary session of the Central Committee of the Polish Workers' Party (PPR), Warsaw 1948.

Literature by and about Hilary Minc in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

↑ Hilary Minc . Munzinger biography, accessed on May 20, 2013.
^ Ray M. Douglas: Orderly and Humane. The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War . Yale University Press, New Haven CT, 2012, ISBN 978-0-300-16660-6 , pp. 258 (English).

personal data
SURNAME	Minc, Hilary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish economist and politician, member of the Sejm
DATE OF BIRTH	August 24, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kazimierz Dolny
DATE OF DEATH	November 26, 1974
Place of death	Warsaw

[1] Hilary Minc . Munzinger biography, accessed on May 20, 2013.

[2] Ray M. Douglas: Orderly and Humane. The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War . Yale University Press, New Haven CT, 2012, ISBN 978-0-300-16660-6 , pp. 258 (English).