Ignacy Loga-Sowiński

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Ignacy Loga-Sowiński (right) with the writer Ludwig Renn (1954)

Ignacy Loga-Sowiński (born January 20, 1914 in Varnkevitz , Rügen , German Empire ; † December 10, 1992 ) was a politician in the People's Republic of Poland , who, among other things, was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party PZPR ( Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza ) and from 1956 to 1971 chairman of the central council of the trade union federation CRZZ (Zrzeszenie Związków Zawodowych) .

Life

World War II and MP

Loga-Sowiński, who came from a working-class family, originally worked as a construction worker. He was involved in the Communist Youth Association KZMP ( Komunistyczny Związek Młodzieży Polskiej ) and joined the Communist Party of Poland in 1935 as a member of the KPP (Komunistyczna Partia Polski) . On February 18, 1938, he was arrested for his political activities with Mieczysław Moczar and was imprisoned until shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War on September 6, 1939. After his release from prison he worked with Moczar again in the underground and after joining the Polish Workers' Party PPR ( Polska Partia Robotnicza ) in 1942 he became a member of its central committee and a representative of the Central Committee in Lublin . In addition, he was under the code name "Grigorij 84" employee of the information department of the People's Guard ( Gwardia Ludowa ) and between 1943 and 1948 candidate of the Central Committee of the PPR. In 1944 he became a member of the State National Council ( Krajowa Rada Narodowa ) and was a member of it until 1947.

After the end of the war, Loga-Sowiński became secretary of the PPR committee in the Łódź Voivodeship in February 1945 . In 1947 he also became a member of the Constituent Parliament (Sejm Ustawodawczy) . After the founding of the Polish United Workers' Party PZPR ( Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza ) in December 1948, he became a member and was elected as a candidate for the Central Committee at the 1st (founding) party congress of the PZPR from December 15 to 22, 1948, where he held this position to 1954. At the same time he began his trade union involvement in 1949 and acted between 1949 and 1956 as chairman of the regional council of the trade union federation CRZZ (Zrzeszenie Związków Zawodowych) in Wroclaw Voivodeship .

Union official, disempowerment and ambassador

He was then briefly secretary in 1956 and then chairman of the central council of the CRZZ trade union federation in 1956. 1956 Loga Sowiński was also during the Polish October after the election of Władysław Gomułka as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the PZPR on 21 October 1956 a member of the Central Committee of the PZPR and member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and was one of two bodies until 1971. In the election of January 20, 1957, he was elected a member of the Sejm and belonged to it until February 1972. From 1957 to 1965 he was a member and then between 1965 and 1971 Deputy Chairman of the State Council ( Rada Państwa ) . In addition, between 1958 and 1971 he was also the deputy chairman of the Presidium of the National Committee of the National United Front FJN ( Front Jedności Narodu ) .

1971 occurred Loga-Sowiński in the course of the workers' uprising from December 14 to 22, 1970 as chairman of the central council of the trade union federation CRZZ, whereupon it came to his replacement by Władysław Kruczek . Kruczek made his predecessor and Gomułka supporter the scapegoat for the poor functioning of “socialist democracy” and made 300 million złoty (1971: 45.8 million D-Marks ) available for urgent social tasks. The rebellious miners and ironworkers in Upper Silesia, however, did not want their rights to be bought from them: Even their functionaries reprimanded the "isolation and bureaucratization" of the union headquarters as early as January 1971 and demanded that the workers' self-government introduced under Gomułka but later ousted by Gomułka " functions again ”. In addition to the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the PZPR Gomułka and Loga-Sowiński as chairmen of the CRZZ, the Central Committee Secretary for Ideology Zenon Kliszko and the Central Committee Secretary for Economy Bolesław Jaszczuk were held responsible for the reasons and the suppression of the workers' uprising . In his keynote address in March 1971, Kruczek admitted that the unions had "alienated, bureaucratised and deformed themselves from the workers" in recent years.

After losing his previous offices, Loga-Sowiński became ambassador to Turkey and held this post until he was replaced by Kazimierz Sidor on September 26, 1978 .

honors and awards

Loga-Sowiński was honored several times for his services in the People's Republic of Poland and received the Order of the Grünwald Cross (Order Krzyża Grunwaldu) Second Class in 1945 , the Cross of Merit in Gold (Krzyż Zasługi) in 1946 , and in 1964 the Order of the Builder of People 's Poland (Order Budowniczych Polski Ludowej) and also in 1964 the Order Sztandaru Pracy, First Class.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eastern Bloc / Warsaw: O Poland, your QuaI! . In: Der Spiegel from October 31, 1956
  2. ↑ Evil . In: Der Spiegel from December 28, 1970
  3. ^ Poland / Workers' Councils: Blood and Tears . In: Der Spiegel from January 18, 1971
  4. ↑ Poland / workers: mouth full . In: Der Spiegel from March 1, 1971
  5. ^ Poland: This shame . In: Der Spiegel from June 28, 1971
  6. ↑ "Obedient Tool of Exploitation". The unions ruled by the Unity Party in Poland . In: Der Spiegel from September 1, 1980
personal data
SURNAME Loga-Sowiński, Ignacy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish politician, member of the Sejm
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Varnkevitz , Rügen , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1992