Mieczysław Moczar

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Mieczysław Moczar

Mieczysław Moczar (actually Mykola Demko , also under the diminutive Mietek known * 25. December 1913 in Lodz , Russian Empire ; † 1. November 1986 in Warsaw ) was a Polish communist politician and anti-Semite.

Life

In 1937 Moczar became a member of the Communist Party of Poland, which was dissolved two years later by a resolution of the Communist International . From 1938 to 1939 he was in prison. After the beginning of the Second World War , Moczar went to the Soviet-occupied Białystok and began to work for the secret service. After the end of the war, he coordinated the fight against the anti-communist opposition in Łódź , where he was particularly noticeable for his cruelty. From October 6, 1948 to April 15, 1952 he was voivode of the Olsztyn Voivodeship . In 1956 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture and from 1964 to 1968 he was Minister of the Interior. From 1971 to 1983 Moczar was finally chairman of the Supreme Control Chamber . He also served as a member of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party from 1965 to 1981 , as its secretary from 1968 to 1971, and from 1970 to 1971 and again from 1980 to 1981 as a member of the Politburo . He was also a general of the Polish People's Army .

In the 1960s, Moczar was a leading representative of the so-called " partisans " group, which combined national and communist beliefs. He was considered a staunch opponent of political reforms and after 1965 increasingly became an internal rival of party chairman Władysław Gomułka , whose overthrow he sought. Moczar became particularly known for his decisive role in the anti-Semitic campaign in Poland in the aftermath of the March 1968 riots . After Gomułka's fall, the Moscow leadership rejected Moczar as a successor and preferred the local Katowice party secretary Edward Gierek .

literature

Web links

Commons : Mieczysław Moczar  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ Piotr Gontarczyk: Polska Partia Robotnicza. Droga do władzy 1941–1944 , Warszawa 2003, p. 8., here based on Polish Wikipedia
  2. ↑ Biuletyn Informacji Publicznej. Institute for National Remembrance of Poland, October 23, 2018, accessed November 1, 2018 (Polish).
personal data
SURNAME Moczar, Mieczysław
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Demko, Mikołaj (maiden name); Mietek (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish communist politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Łódź
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1986
Place of death Warsaw