Stefan Jędrychowski
Stefan Jędrychowski (born May 19, 1910 in Warsaw ; † May 26, 1996 ibid) was a politician of the Polish United Workers' Party PZPR ( Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza ) in the People's Republic of Poland , who, among other things, was an ambassador as a member of the Lublin Committee between 1944 and 1945 Poland was in the Soviet Union . He was also Minister for Shipping and Foreign Trade from 1945 to 1947, Vice-President of the Council of Ministers from 1951 to 1956, Chairman of the State Planning Commission from 1956 to 1968 and Foreign Minister from 1968 to 1971 . As Foreign Minister he was involved in talks with the German Federal Government on Ostpolitik and on December 7, 1970 he signed the treaty between the Federal Republic of Germany and the People's Republic of Poland on the basis of normalizing their mutual relations . He was then Minister of Finance from 1971 to 1974 and Ambassador to the People's Republic of Hungary between 1974 and 1978 .
Life
Sejm MP, Vice Prime Minister and President of the Planning Commission
Stefan Jędrychowski graduated from Vilnius University and was involved in the Vilnius Academic Club, where he met the authors Paweł Jasienica and Wacław Korabiewicz . In the interwar period he was a member of left-wing organizations in Vilnius and co-editor of the magazine Poprostu . After September 17, 1939 in the course of the Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland , he sent letters to the Parliament of Lithuania, the Soviet of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Supreme Soviet of the USSR at the instigation of Josef Stalin and Wanda Wasilewska . In 1943 he was one of the co-organizers of the Association of Polish Patriots ZPP (Związek Patriotów Polskich) in the USSR and joined the Polish Workers 'Party in 1944 as a member of the Polish Workers' Party ( Polska Partia Robotnicza ) . On July 21, 1944, Minister of Information and Propaganda in Lublin Committee Polish-called Committee of National Liberation PKWN (Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego) , the Provisional Government, chaired by Prime Minister Edward Osóbka-Morawski , and held this post until the 31 December 1944 At the same time he became a representative of Poland in the Soviet Union as a member of the Lublin Committee on July 22, 1944 and, after the establishment of full diplomatic relations at the embassy level between the USSR and the Provisional Government, became Ambassador to the Soviet Union on January 5, 1945. He held this post until his replacement by Zygmunt Modzelewski in 1945. On September 9, 1944, he became a member of the National Council of the KRN ( Krajowa Rada Narodowa ) for the PPR , of which he was a member until 1947.
After the end of the Second World War , Jędrychowski was in the Provisional Government of the National Unity TRJN (Tymczasowy Rząd Jedności Narodowej) , the third government of Prime Minister Edward Osóbka-Morawski, Minister of Shipping and Foreign Trade ( Minister Żeglugi i Handlu Zagranicznego) . In the Sejm election on January 19, 1947 , he was elected for the PPR in constituency No. 23 Gdańsk as a member of the Constituent Sejm (Sejm Ustawodawczy) . During this time he was chairman of the Tax and Budget Committee. In the first government of Prime Minister Józef Cyrankiewicz , he became Vice President of the Council of Ministers on December 12, 1951 and was thus one of the Deputy Prime Ministers (Wicepremier) . He held this post until October 24, 1956 in the government of Prime Minister Bolesław Bierut and the second government Cyrankiewicz.
On November 20, 1952, Stefan Jędrychowski was elected a member of the Sejm for the PZPR in constituency No. 37 Gdynia and was a member of this until the end of the fifth legislative period on December 22, 1971. On July 11, 1956, he replaced Eugeniusz Szyr in the second Cyrankiewicz government as chairman of the State Planning Commission at the Council of Ministers (Przewodniczący Komisji Planowania przy Radzie Ministrów) and also held this office in the third, fourth and fifth Cyrankiewicz government for more than twelve years on his replacement by Józef Kulesza on December 22, 1968. At the plenum of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party (Central Committee of the PZPR) he was also a member of the Politburo on October 21, 1956 and belonged to this highest party body for fifteen years until the VI. Party congress (December 6-11, 1971).
Foreign Minister, German Ostpolitik, Finance Minister
Stefan Jędrychowski also took over on December 21, 1968 from the resigned Adam Rapacki the post of Foreign Minister (Minister spraw zagranicznych) . He also held this ministerial post in the sixth Cyrankiewicz government and the first government of Prime Minister Piotr Jaroszewicz until December 22, 1971, when Stefan Olszowski succeeded him. As Foreign Minister he was involved in the talks with the German Federal Government on Ostpolitik , was previously responsible for economic issues, in particular for financial and economic aid, and on December 7, 1970 he finally signed the basic agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and the People's Republic of Poland the normalization of their mutual relationships . As a follower of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the PZPR Edward Gierek , he succeeded Józef Trendota as Minister of Finance (Minister finansów) on December 22, 1971 and also held this post in the second Jaroszewicz government until he was replaced by Henryk Kisiel on December 22, 1971 November 1974.
After leaving the government, Jędrychowski acted as ambassador to the People's Republic of Hungary between 1974 and his replacement by Tadeusz Pietrzak in 1978 . Most recently he was a member of the General Council of the Association of Fighters for Freedom and Democracy ZBoWiD (Związek Bojowników o Wolność i Demokrację) from 1985 to 1990 .
Stefan Jędrychowski has received several awards for his services, including the Order of Polonia Restituta (Order Odrodzenia Polski) as a commander with a star , the Order Virtuti Militari , in 1946 the Order of the Cross of Grunwald (Order Krzyża Grunwaldu) third class, and in 1950 the Order of the Banner of the Work (Order Sztandaru Pracy) first class and the Order of Builders of People's Poland (Order Budowniczych Polski Ludowej) . After his death he was buried in the Powązki cemetery .
Web links
- Entry on the Sejm's homepage
- The Governments of People's Republic of Poland 1944–1989
- The Politburo of the PZPR
- Entry in Rulers
Individual evidence
- ↑ THE MEMOIRS MIKOLAJCZYKS . In: Spiegel Online of March 6, 1948
- ^ Poland: Deputy Prime Ministers in Rulers
- ↑ He later represented constituencies No. 18 Gdańsk (1957 to 1961), No. 17 Gdańsk (1961 to 1965) and finally No. 67 Szczecin (1965 to 1972).
- ↑ POLAND: Faithful son. With Moscow's help, the Polish Communist Party leader Gierek was able to disembark his opponents without giving up his reform program. . In: Spiegel Online from December 20, 1971
- ^ Poland: Foreign Ministers in Rulers
- ↑ PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION: Stefan Olszowski . In: Spiegel Online of December 27, 1971
- ↑ “TRANSFER TO THE FASTEST HORSE” . In: Spiegel Online of March 9, 1970
- ↑ POLAND NEGOTIATIONS: Looking for formulas . In: Spiegel Online from March 16, 1970
- ↑ POLAND TRADE: Good harvest . In: Spiegel Online from June 29, 1970
- ↑ POLAND NEGOTIATIONS: Both long-suffering . In: Spiegel Online from September 14, 1970
- ↑ POLAND NEGOTIATIONS: Stay forever . In: Spiegel Online from November 9, 1970
- ↑ POLAND / NEIGHBORS: The society on -ki. Poland is not on the Australian continent and its neighbors are not peaceful shepherds. Communist Party leader Wladyslaw Gomulka . In: Spiegel Online from November 16, 1970
- ↑ POLAND NEGOTIATIONS: Embassy wanted . In: Spiegel Online from November 16, 1970
- ↑ POLAND TREATY: Something in store . In: Spiegel Inline from November 23, 1970
- ↑ POLAND TREATY: Repentance and Hope . In: Spiegel Online from December 4, 1970
- ^ PROPAGANDA: Not cricket. A CIA station in the Federal Republic disrupts Bonn's détente. But for fear of the CDU and the USA, the federal government does not dare to cancel the broadcasting license. . In: Spiegel Online from June 7, 1971
- ↑ "We are now driving a different class of car" . In: Spiegel Online from October 4, 1971
- ^ Poland: Finance Ministers in Rulers
- ↑ PROFESSIONAL: Tadeusz Pietrzak . In: Spiegel Online of March 13, 1978
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jędrychowski, Stefan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish politician, member of the Sejm, minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 1996 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |