Wladyslaw Kozdra

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Władysław Kozdra (born January 1, 1920 in Wysoka near Strzyżów , then in the Lviv Voivodeship ; † September 12, 1986 in Koszalin ) was a politician in the People's Republic of Poland , who was among other things first secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party PZPR ( Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza ) in the Lublin Voivodeship and between 1972 and 1980 the first secretary of the PZPR in the Koszalin Voivodeship and the new Koszalin Voivodeship formed from it in 1975 .

Life

Second World War and First Party Secretary of Lublin

Kozdra, who came from a farming family, trained as a locksmith, but then worked as a bricklayer and worker in a brick factory before the Second World War . In 1937 he joined the Polish Socialist Party (Polska Partia Socjalistyczna, PPS) as a member before becoming a member of the Polish Workers' Party ( Polska Partia Robotnicza , PPR) in 1943 . During the war he was a member of the People's Guard ( Gwardia Ludowa ) and the People's Army ( Armia Ludowa ) and most recently between 1944 and 1945 first secretary of the PPR in Strzyżów .

After the end of the war Kozdra graduated from the Central Party School in Łódź and was then secretary of the PPR in the powiat Rzeszów and in 1947 head of the organizational department of the PPR in the Rzeszów Voivodeship . After the establishment of the Polish United Workers' Party ( Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza , PZPR) in December 1948, he became a member and between 1949 and 1951 he studied at the party school of the PZPR Central Committee (Szkoła Partyjna przy KC PZPR) in Warsaw . He then became deputy head of the Central Committee for Agriculture in 1951.

In 1956, following the election of Władysław Gomułka as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the PZPR on October 21, 1956, Kozdra became First Secretary of the PZPR in the Lublin Voivodeship during the course of Polish October and held this post for 15 years until 1971. January 1957 he was elected a member of the Sejm and belonged to it until February 1972. On the III. At the party congress from March 10 to 19, 1959, he was elected a member of the PZPR Central Committee and belonged to this body until the IX. extraordinary party congress from July 14th to 20th, 1981. In 1964 he also completed a distance learning course at the Faculty of Humanities at the Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin . When an anti-Semitic campaign broke out in the course of the March 1968 unrest in Poland , he was the first secretary of the PZPR to warn the Lublin Voivodeship: “Our Polish nationalism is more dangerous than Zionism…” At the same time, he had the police crack down on students . During the workers' uprising from December 14th to 22nd, 1970 , he described the striking workers in the Polish Baltic Sea cities as "the ejection of society".

Vice Minister and First Party Secretary of Köslin

Almost eight months later, Kozdra lost his post as First Secretary of the PZPR of the Lublin Voivodeship in August 1971 under Edward Gierek , the successor to Gomułka as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the PZPR. Thereupon he took over the office of State Secretary and Vice Minister for Forestry and Wood Management from August 1971 to October 1972.

He then became first secretary of the PZPR in the Koszalin Voivodeship in October 1972 and held this post until 1980, when the new Koszalin Voivodeship was formed in 1975 as part of a territorial reform . Kozdra's return as party secretary was seen in Poland as an indication of a weaker position for party leader Gierek. At the same time he became a member of the Sejm again in the election of March 21, 1975 and was a member of it until August 31, 1985.

honors and awards

For his service in the People's Republic of Poland Kozdra was honored several times and received, among others, in 1964 the Order Banner of Labor ( Order Sztandaru Pracy ) , First Class, 1974, the medal of the 30th anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland (Medal 30-lecia Polski Ludowej) and 1979 Order of Builders of People's Poland (Order Budowniczych Polski Ludowej) . He was also awarded the Order of the Banner of Labor Second Class and the title of Star Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Order Odrodzenia Polski) .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ POLAND / OPPOSITION: little eyes under the bandage . In: Der Spiegel from September 9, 1968
  2. ↑ PROFESSIONAL: Wladyslaw Kozdra . In: Der Spiegel from November 21, 1972
  3. ↑ PROFESSIONAL: Wladyslaw Kozdra . In: Der Spiegel from November 21, 1972
personal data
SURNAME Kozdra, Wladyslaw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish politician, member of the Sejm
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Wysoka , Strzyżów , Lviv Voivodeship
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1986
Place of death Koszalin