Jozef Tejchma

Józef Tejchma (born July 14, 1927 in Markowa ) was a Polish politician of the Polish United Workers' Party PZPR ( Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza ) and diplomat who, among other things, was secretary of the PZPR Central Committee for Agriculture between 1964 and 1972 and a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister from 1972 to 1979, Minister of Culture and Art from 1974 to 1978 and again between 1980 and 1982, Minister of Education from 1979 to 1980, Ambassador to Switzerland in 1980 and Ambassador to Greece between 1984 and 1988 and Cyprus was.

Life

Tejchma was an active member of the Association of Rural Youth ZMW (Związek Młodzieży Wiejskiej) from 1945 to 1948 and then from 1948 to 1956 an instructor at the Central Council of the Union of Polish Youth ZMW (Związek Młodzieży Polskiej) . In 1957 he was one of the founders of the new rural youth association ZMW (Związek Młodzieży Wiejskiej) , of which he was chairman between 1957 and 1963. In 1958, he completed a degree that he had started at the University of Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Społecznych przy KC PZPR) . On November 5, 1958, he became a member of the Sejm for the first time and was a member of it until February 8, 1980. During his membership in parliament he was a member of various committees and was from February 17, 1961 to June 24, 1965 Vice-President of the Committee on Agriculture and the Food Industry.

In 1963, Tejchma was first head of the Agriculture Department in the PZPR Central Committee and then between 1964 and 1972 Secretary of the PZPR Central Committee for Agriculture. He was also vice-president of the PZPR faction in the Sejm between June 24, 1965 and December 22, 1971 . At the same time he held the position of Vice President of the National Committee of the Front of National Unity JJN (Front Jedności Narodu) from 1971 to 1983 . At the fifth party congress of the PZPR (November 11-16, 1968) he became a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee, of which he was a member until February 15, 1980. On March 29, 1972 he became Deputy Prime Minister (Wiceprezes Rady Ministrów) and held this office in the government of Prime Minister Piotr Jaroszewicz until February 8, 1979. In addition, he served for the first time between February 16, 1974 and January 26, 1978 Minister for Culture and Art (Minister kultury i sztuki) . He then held the post of Minister for Education (Minister oświaty i wychowania) in the Jaroszewicz government from February 8, 1979 to April 2, 1980 .

After Tejchma was briefly ambassador to Switzerland between April and October 1980 , he again took over the post of Minister for Culture and Art in the governments of Prime Ministers Józef Pińkowski and from October 8, 1980 until his replacement by Kazimierz Żygulski on October 9, 1982 Wojciech Jaruzelski . He later served as ambassador to Greece and Cyprus between 1984 and 1988 .

Tejchma has received several awards for his longstanding services and received, among other things, the Order of Builders of People's Poland (Order Budowniczych Polski Ludowej) , the Order of the Banner of Labor (Order Sztandaru Pracy), First Class, the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Order Odrodzenia Polski) , the Cross of Merit of the People's Republic of Poland in gold (Złoty Krzyż Zasługi) and the Grand Cross of the Portuguese Order of Infante Dom Henrique .

Web links

• Entry on the Sejm's homepage
• Poland 1944–1989: Poliburo Members and Secretariat of the Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza
• The Governments of People's Republic of Poland 1944–1989

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tejchma represented the following constituencies in the Sejm: No. 36 Myślenice (1958 to 1961), No. 64 Rzeszów (1961 to 1965), No. 53 Olsztyn (1965 to 1972) and No. 71 Płock (1972 to 1980).