Zbigniew Messner
Zbigniew Stefan Messner (born March 13, 1929 in Stryj near Lemberg , Poland , today Ukraine , † January 10, 2014 in Warsaw ) was a Polish politician and economist .
From 1972 he was a professor at the business school in Katowice , where he had also studied, and between 1975 and 1982 its rector. Elected member of the Politburo of the PZPR in 1981 , he took over the function of First Party Secretary of the Katowice Voivodeship (until 1983) a year later . From 1983 to 1985 he was Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, from 1985 to 1988 Prime Minister. On behalf of General Jaruzelski , he was supposed to initiate economic reforms that ultimately failed completely. When a referendum on these reforms, which the population used as the first referendum against the communist regime in over 40 years, failed in 1987, Messner submitted his resignation on September 19, 1988.
Messner was seen in public, where he was not particularly popular, as a rather apolitical technocrat. When he failed in the June 1989 elections , his political career ended and he returned to academia.
He was the author of numerous specialist publications on the subjects of business informatics and accounting.
Web links
- Zbigniew Messner in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Katowicach: Zbigniew Stefan Messner. Retrieved March 22, 2019 (Polish).
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| SURNAME | Messner, Zbigniew |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Messner, Zbigniew Stefan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish politician and economist, Prime Minister of Poland (1985–1988) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stryj , Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 2014 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |