Piotr Jaroszewicz

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Piotr Jaroszewicz, 1977

Piotr Jaroszewicz (born October 8, 1909 in Nieśwież , Russian Empire , † September 1 or September 2, 1992 in Warsaw ) was a Polish general and politician.

Life

After attending school in Jasło , he was a primary school teacher and director in the 1930s. After the beginning of the Second World War he was under Soviet rule and in 1943 he joined the new Polish army under General Zygmunt Berling . There he made it to the position of Deputy Commander for Political and Educational Affairs of the First Army. From 1943 he was a member of the PPR , from 1948 to 1980 of the PZPR .

From 1945 to 1950 he was Deputy Minister of Defense of Poland , from 1952 to 1970 Deputy Prime Minister, between 1954 and 1956 he was also Minister of Mines. Since 1948 he belonged to the Central Committee , since 1964 to the Politburo . After the fall of Gomułka , his successor Edward Gierek appointed him as the new prime minister. In the ten years of his term in office, he made an appearance above all with economic policy measures that ultimately contributed to Poland's deep state crisis in the 1970s. In the reform year 1980 Jaroszewicz was replaced together with Gierek, after the imposition of martial law on December 13, 1981 by Wojciech Jaruzelski , he was interned, later excluded from the PZPR and even tried before the state court in 1984.

In late summer 1992, he and his wife were murdered in their house in a Warsaw suburb under circumstances that have not yet been clarified.

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SURNAME Jaroszewicz, Piotr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish politician, member of the Sejm and military
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Nieśwież, today: Njaswisch , Belarus
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1992
Place of death Warsaw