Stanislaw Kania

Stanisław Kania (born March 8, 1927 in Wrocanka near Jasło ; † March 3, 2020 in Warsaw ) was a Polish politician .

Life

During the Second World War, Kania was a worker and fought in the peasant battalions ( Bataliony Chłopskie ). In 1945 he joined the Polish Workers 'Party (PPR), which in 1948 became the Polish United Workers' Party (PVAP). From then on, Kania made a slow but steady party career. From 1968 to 1971 he headed the administration department at the Central Committee , from 1971 to 1981 he was Central Committee Secretary, from 1975 to 1981 a member of the Politburo . From September 6, 1980 to October 18, 1981, he was the successor to Edward Gierek, First Secretary of the PVAP. Kania was considered a typical compromise candidate and moderate apparatchik . As a result of the tightening of the political course, he was then replaced by General Wojciech Jaruzelski , but was still a member of the State Council from 1982 to 1985 and remained a member of the Sejm until 1989 .

In 1991 he published his memoirs Zatrzymać konfrontację (“To stop the confrontation”).

In 2012, he was acquitted by the Warsaw District Court on charges of breach of the Constitution in imposing martial law in 1981 . The prosecutors of the Institute for National Remembrance (IPN) appealed against this acquittal ; but the Warsaw Court of Appeal upheld the judgment of the first instance the following year . He died of heart failure and pneumonia on March 3, 2020 .

Web links

Communist with scruples. Detailed obituary for Stanisław Kania in RADIO service POLSKA .

Footnotes

1. ^ "Gazeta Wyborcza": Nie żyje Stanisław Kania, ostatni z żyjących I sekretarzy Komitetu Centralnego PZPR. Miał 93 lata
2. ↑ [1] Gazeta Wyborcza , January 12, 2012.
3. ↑ SA: procurator IPN never wykazał winy Kani. Gazeta Wyborcza , June 3, 2013.
4. ↑ Death report